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Life Sentence for Self-Defense Claim | Charleston News
A five-foot-three-inch man convicted of killing two of his own cousins in a brutal 2021 double homicide, Rashiean Washington Sr., received life without parole after a judge rejected his self-defense claims. Prosecutors revealed he shot Grant, who had a gun, then Champagne as he fled into a pantry — and later set fire to the apartment, dragging bodies into the living room. Despite Washington’s insistence he was a trained gun owner who fired to “neutralize the threat,” ballistic evidence and witness accounts contradicted his story. The victims’ family grieved the loss of two young men, one who…
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