Grandmother offers up another side of Jimmy Wilson murder
The grandmother of a University of Montana football player accused of shooting a Lancaster man to death said her grandson acted in self-defense.Gloria Wilson, the grandmother of James "Jimmy" Wilson, who is charged with the murder of Kevin Smoot, 29, said her grandson shot at Smoot after he came after Wilson with a gun.
"Kevin had a gun," she said. "James and Kevin tussled over the gun, then Kevin was shot."
The story also provides more details on the case and Jimmy's living situation.
She said her foster daughter had a tumultuous relationship with Smoot, in which they shared two children.
Wilson had gone over to his foster aunt's house about 10:30 p.m. June 2 after she called his grandmother several times about Smoot's abusive behavior, Gloria Wilson said.
Gloria's daughter told her that Smoot had urinated on her and was fighting her.
"They were two people that shouldn't have been together," she said.
Wilson planned to pick up his aunt at her residence in the 44900 block of 16th Street East in Lancaster and take her away from Smoot, she said. He told his grandmother, "Grandma, she don't have nobody but us."
"He didn't go over there to talk it over," Wilson's grandmother said.
Wilson told Smoot that "it's inhuman to urinate on a person."
Wilson was staying at his grandmother's house for the summer, she said. Wilson's grandmother paid for his housing costs while he majored in business at the University of Montana, where he was a Grizzlies cornerback and their seventh-leading returning tackler. He enrolled at the Missoula university after playing football at Point Loma High School in San Diego.
It's good to hear another side to this story. As I mentioned before, Qwenton Freeman's silence on this case only makes Wilson look more guilty. If Smoot did something as despicable as urinating on someone and he did have a gun, two witnesses could convince a jury this was self defense. It also makes me wonder if this case could possibly fall under "defense of another." Yeah... I heard that in an episode of The Practice.
