disabled, is walking his dog past a taco bell. police say a car in the drive thru nearly runs into him. an argument begins with the driver, kordell jude, who soon pulls a pistol and shoots atkins dead, leaving his family stricken. jude says atkins made a threatening move with some sort of bat. police find no such weapon, and jude is charged with second degree murder. mere words alone cannot provide justification for the use of physical force. reporter: milwaukee, wisconsin, 76-year-old john spooner accuses 13-year-old darius simmons of burglarizing his home. the teen denies it, and the security camera shows the explosive moment when spooner accosts the boy and shoots him as his mother watches. spooner s lawyer claims mental illness. he didn t appreciate the wrongfulness of what he was doing. reporter: this week he was convicted of murder anyway. what do we want? justice.
0 remember you can always follow what s going on here in the situation room. on twitter, tweet m me @wolfblitzer. you can tweet the sho show @cnnsitroom. anxious, as always, to hear from you. thanks for watching. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett out front starts right now. out front next, shocking news. detroit becomes the largest city in the united states to file bankruptcy in history. plus a shocking development today in the whitey bulger trial. a potential key witness turned up dead today. and new photos of dzhokhar tsarnaev to counteract rolling stone s controversial cover, but do the new images of him glamourize him even more? let s go out front. good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, we begin with the breaking news. the city of detroit has officially filed for bankruptcy. it is the biggest city in this country ever to go under. now, in the filing, which i have been reading through this afternoon, detroit says its homicide