‘Trying to do the right thing is not the right answer’: Woman who allegedly shot and killed a man during failed citizen’s arrest takes the stand in her own defense during murder trial

A woman facing multiple charges for allegedly shooting and killing a man during a failed citizen’s arrest took the stand on her own behalf in Clayton County, Georgia, late Monday afternoon.

Hannah Payne, 24, admittedly never drew her weapon before the day of the traffic accident that changed her life and ended in another person, Kenneth Herring, 62, losing his time on earth forever.

“The way you hold it is based on what you’re ready to do,” the defendant said in court before her judge and jury, recalling a firearms self-defense course she once took that focused on gun storage.

Payne insisted that she never meant for her brandished handgun to ever fire a bullet on that fateful day in May 2019. Rather, she said, the deceased man shot himself.