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Before police arrested him. he is actually talking from his jail cell. this is what he had to say. >> i don't like. it believe me, i didn't want to kill anybody. they're not going to kill me. i felt my life was in danger. i'm sorry. i'm 62 years old. i'm not taking punks beating me up. it doesn't make a difference if he is black. everybody around me is black that lives around there. >> reporter: police have not been able to get back to us if the teen had a gun. william says he feared for his life and shot him in self defense. that is something we will have to figure out. one thing that stands ...

Is black, i get along with all of them, ask them. >> something further complicating this story, brooke, something that's astonishing, police say this older man made a statement after being arrested. he said "the way i look at it, that's another piece of trash off the street." now he's saying he did not say that to the police department. we have called the police department to ask them questions about whether or not this young man had a gun and could there have been a moment where he feared for his life and that's why the shots were fired? this is thanksgiving, we haven't heard back from the po...

The 15-year-old james meade produced a gun and was waving it around. he said he wanted to get away from the young man, he went to the dollar store and on returning from the dollar store he crossed the street to avoid this young man. he says james crossed the street, they had more words and that's when he pulled his gun. listen to some of the words he said during that jailhouse interview. >> i felt my life was in danger. i'm sorry, but i mean, i'm 62 years old. i don't want a bunch of punks beating me up. i don't care if they're white or black. they're not doing me like that. not everybody who ...

Street to avoid the teenagers that he just had a little bit of beef with and that's when he says james means walked across the street and encountered him once again and when the gun was reproduced that's when he pulled his gun and opened fire. in fact, this man, william pulliam, gave an interview inside the jailhouse after being charged with murder. >> i don't like it. i didn't want to kill anybody. but, you know, they're not going to kill me. i felt my life was in danger. i'm sorry but -- i mean, i'm 62 years old, it's not going to let a bunch of folks beat me up. i don't care if they're whit...

Possessing a gun at the time when this confrontation happened. that's also not part of the initial police report. one of the things people are talking about obviously is what happened to put these two men together where he pulled out a gun and then according to police, went home, ate dinner before police arrived to arrest him. lot of troubling details here in this one. >> that's disturbing. the suspect wasn't even supposed to have a gun in the first place, is that right? >> reporter: absolutely right. back in 2013, he pleaded no contest to a domestic abuse charges and by federal law he was not...