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jmra wrote:

rdcrags wrote:Isn’t it more helpful to your case to say “I had to shoot a person who is dressed like a man when he tried to shoot me”? Instead of “tried to rob me”. My position would be that I feared for my life, not that I was about to be $80 less rich.

What difference does it make how he's dressed?

These days , one cannot tell by looking at the person externally, so to speak. Even if my intent is to say the minimum, I wouldn't want to be told later that, in the process of identifying my attacker, I described the wrong gender, and therefore don't know what I am talking about. "Well, it looked like a man" seems a little weak.

Isn’t it more helpful to your case to say “I had to shoot a person who is dressed like a man when he tried to shoot me”? Instead of “tried to rob me”. My position would be that I feared for my life, not that I was about to be $80 less rich.