Miami rapper testifies that she shot her manager’s friend as ‘a last resort’

A Miami rapper accused of gunning down her manager’s friend during a night out promoting her music testified on Thursday about how she was in fear for her life because — moments before the shooting — he had pinned her down to the ground.

“I thought I was going to die. I thought I was going to die,” Kevhani Camilla Hicks said during her testimony. “He had shown me what he was capable of. …. I thought he could kill me, just with his bare hands.”

Hicks, 30, took the stand as her attorneys requested that Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Lody Jean dismiss Hicks’ second-degree murder charge under Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. The Stand Your Ground law allows a person to use deadly action if they feel their life is threatened…

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