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The defense in the Remy Ma case acknowledged that Remy had shot her friend, but said in its closing that the gun went off during a struggle over a bag.

Remy had maintained that her victim, Makeda Barnes Joseph, had reached into her bag and that she thought she had stolen $3,000 from her. When Joseph refused to dump her own bag, Remy and her friend, said the defense, tussled over the purse and the gun then went off, and Joseph was shot in the abdomen.

Remy, said the prosecution, didn't call 911 or a hospital, and pointed out that the gun was an illegal .45 automatic loaded with hollow-point bullets.