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Published: Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 4:52 p.m.  Jury weighs
self-defense claim in Arlington killing  EVERETT -- Dennis
Watters was afraid for his life when he fired his handgun into a
car at the Blue Stilly Park last year. One of the bullets struck
the passenger, Ryan Mumm, in the temple. The 20-year-old died
the next day. Watters told the cops that he opened fire because
he thought Mumm was shooting at him. He said Mumm first pointed
a gun at him and then began firing as he passed Watters' pickup
truck. He "came face-to-face with a young man who was out of
control," defense attorney Jennifer Rancourt said. "Dennis
Watters acted out of terror, out of fear and out of panic." She
called the killing tragic but justifiable. "The reason Ryan Mumm
lost his life was because he pointed a loaded firearm directly
at Dennis Watters," Rancourt said. Prosecutors painted a
different picture of the defendant on T