My hiatus allowed me to reformulate my opinion on this case without all of the background noise. My conclusion is the same, EN acted in self defense, but I've gone a completely different direction on how I get there.
My thoughts, theory, speculation and just wild imagination follows (with links at the end of post):
I can't shake the revelations in the GJ testimony that EN called multiple friends and more than one friend showed up to pick him up. Add to that my my discovery that someone is standing in EN's driveway in the surveillance video, and it seems EN had a crew in the neighborhood that night.
I always believed there were two incidents (road rage and shooting) but with one car---that car stopped and threatened the M's on the way to picking up the M's. Now I do believe there were two cars, and both cars were friends of EN's. After all, EN tells LE himself that more than one friend showed up to pick him up. That's proof there was more than one car in the area IMO. Sure, the first friend could have left, but that's unlikely since there is someone standing in EN's driveway immediately prior to the second shooting.
This very well could explain why the M's stories don't make sense. (I'm ignoring the first story entirely because it's not part of the arrest warrant or the grand jury testimony.) From the M's perspective, there were to different unrelated incidents with two different vehicles.
I believe EN was paranoid as hell. I've been around a paranoid person. Everything in the grand jury testimony indicates extreme paranoia. Add drugs to his paranoia, and an innocent driving lesson could have caused him to freak out and call friends,
BUT it's irrelevant to me if TM and KM were having driving lessons or if (modsnip) The determining factor to me is who brandished their gun first and had an offensive intent.
EN's intent was defensive. He called his friends to get him away. He waited until he felt it was safe to leave the park before getting into the second car. If he had a friend standing in front of his house, that also indicates he feared for his family. (The friend who stopped and threatened the M's isn't EN's responsibility. He wasn't there. That friend took it upon himself to be on the offensive.) EN tried to flee the buick at high speeds. He did everything he could to make the buick go away. That's why he brandished his gun out the window.
But TM went home to get BM and his gun over a verbal threat that most people would consider all talk and no action. BM subsequently sharing that TM has done this before, chasing a gang member home for his rudeness, indicates it's TM's personality to go after people she feels wronged her. I can't understand why some here don't realize that story doesn't help the M's. (modsnip) Add BM brandishing his gun first per the arrest warrant, and all of this points to offensive actions on the M's part.
Without calling anyone liars or creating a fantasy story based on nothing in the warrant or grand jury testimony, it's still understandable to me that EN acted in self defense. The M's terrible errors of judgment and offensive actions caused TM's death.
I refuse to focus my attention only to what happened on Mt. Shasta because the entire string of events prior to Mt. Shasta are all part of one event that formulated everyone's intents and actions.
I'll add links:
Nowsch Arrest Warrant:
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/0...5F02612X-declaration-&-complaint_Redacted.pdf
Nowsch Grand Jury Transcript:
http://www.mynews3.com/media/lib/166/1/8/3/183997e6-0122-44f7-99b5-c23203a0e717/030515Nowsch.pdf
TM previously followed gang member home because he was rude:
http://www.reviewjournal.com/column...n-tammy-meyers-was-mom-people-would-want-have
Surveillance video and pictures. Magnified, I can see someone standing in EN's driveway:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rder-mother-just-teaching-daughter-drive.html