All she made was a wordless hum to his last words. Defending herself didn't make her a bad person, but there was a time and a place to quibble about if she actually was. This wasn't it.

"You didn't kill her," she said it a little more firmly. "The bastard who pulled the trigger killed her." Her mouth snapped over the curse like spitting the sounds. "Not you."

But she let him go, and went to step back towards the car. "I'm going to keep telling you that until you believe it."