The Macomb County Prosecutor's Office said that Zachary Holston III was exiting the family business in Sterling Heights, Michigan, when his half-sister, Rita Evans, approached him and an argument followed. Evans' husband and daughter were also present at the time.
"We took his claims of self-defense into consideration at the time of authorizing these charges," Fox said."The defendant turned it from verbal to something far worse. And that included pushing away a young woman who was trying to get in between Rita and the defendant, drawing his firearm when Rita had no gun at all in her hand, it was in her purse, pointing the gun as Rita as she was getting her own gun in self-defense.