A jury this week acquitted a 20-year-old man in the fatal shooting last year of Eric Purley at a Central Avenue bus stop during a confrontation captured on security video.

A defense attorney told jurors last week that Joshua Eli Dickens shot Purley, 46, in self defense after the larger, intoxicated man approached Dickens aggressively with a metal baton.

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