he got aggravated and aggressive with me and he grabbed me by my shirt. and it was at that point in time that you shot him to protect yourself? yes, i did. i was in fear for my life. in my mind, he was there to kill me. cindy turned to the judge, fighting back tears, and explained that she fired because it looked like nissim was about to shoot her. he turns with his left hand towards his right, and at that moment, i just started shooting and shooting, like there was no tomorrow. because in my mind, he was reaching out for the gun i seen him with, and he was going to shoot at me. it was so scary. cindy s attorneys reminded the judge that after the shooting, the police announced cindy was would not be charged. after the detectives interviewed her, they felt at the time that this could be a case of self-defense. and the defense pointed out news stories of the time, in which police were quoting