Attorneys offered jurors differing accounts of Eric Purley's shooting death at a Central Avenue bus stop at the trial of a 20-year-old man charged in the killing.

A defense attorney said in opening statements Tuesday that Joshua Dickens shot Purley, 46, in self-defense after the larger, intoxicated man approached Dickens aggressively and threatened him with a metal baton.

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