LEESBURG — On Monday, after talking with prosecutors, police released the man who shot and killed another man at his home on West Main Street, giving credibility, possibly, to a claim of self-defense.

But police said Tuesday they found no second gun, although the shooter said he fired because it appeared the other man was reaching for a weapon.

On Monday, Denise Sanders told reporters she did not know the man who drove up in a black GMC Yukon and rushed up to her house at about 9:30 a.m., saying “We’re going to handle this today. Somebody’s going down today.”

That man was Kevin L. Williams, 28, and he was shot by Sanders’ son, Darrell K. White, 29.

Police responding to calls of four or five shots fired rushed to 1700 W. Main St. at 9:37 a.m. to find Williams on the ground in the front yard of a home, according to reports released by police on Tuesday.

The first officer on scene spotted White wearing only blue athletic shorts, 10 to 15 feet away. White immediately dropped to his knees and put his hands behind his neck when he saw the officer.

“I just had to,” White said, according to a police report. “He stabbed my girl.”

He was handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car.

At that point, a woman led the officer to Williams and said, “He might have something,” apparently referring to vital signs.

Another woman was screaming and said, “He has a pulse.” She began pounding on Williams' chest.

The officer said he moved her away so he could check Williams' pulse until the Fire Department arrived.

Asked if she knew who the wounded man was, she said: “I don’t know. I heard some pops and came down here.”

The officer noted that Williams had a gunshot wound to the upper right side of his head and another in his left torso. He found a Bersa handgun in the grass.

Capt. Joe Iozzi confirmed Tuesday that there wasn't a second gun at the scene.

Sanders said Williams reached behind his back as if he had a gun. That’s when her son shot him, she said.

Sanders said that before the shooting, she overheard a woman call someone complaining about White. She said the woman was someone “her son used to mess around with.” He has a fiancée now and told her so, Sanders said.

When Williams walked onto the property she said, “Please don’t do this, sir,” and “Would you please get off my property?”

He kept saying “no,” she said.

She said she also tried to keep her son from coming down the porch steps into the yard, but he was angry, especially when the man pushed her, Sanders said.

Iozzi said he is not sure what White was talking about when he said Williams had “stabbed my girl.”

A woman who identified herself to the Daily Commercial on Monday as White’s fiancée appeared to be unharmed.

Police are still handling the shooting as a homicide investigation, Iozzi said.

Sanders, upset until her son was released, was confident it was self defense.

“Where’s the stand your ground?” she said referring to Florida’s controversial self-defense law. Williams was clearly making threats, both in his remarks and in his actions, she said.

“So now we have an issue, with somebody laying on the ground, because he would not leave the property. And it was wrong, and sad and bad as it is that this happened, but I feel that the person who should be going to jail is the girl because she called him over here.”