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(Continued from Page 2) not see what was happening outside on the other side of the car.

As a convicted felon, the mere possession of a firearm by Albert Gatewood is illegal, and both he and his brother denied on the stand that he had a gun that night. His mother Vivian testified that she had not seen a gun during the time that he was in her house.

Under cross-examination by Mr. Luke, Reginald Gatewood admitted that he had a pistol in his truck, and that he put it in his pocket when he got out of the truck on Rt. 622, “because I didn’t know what he (Mr. Veeney) had in the car ... I didn’t point the gun at him.”

Asked if he saw his brother Albert with a gun at any time, Reginald replied, “No.”

“Would it surprise you,” asked Mr. Luke, “to learn that three witnesses have testified under oath that Albert had a gun?”

“I did not see it,” Reginald Gatewood replied firmly.

In response to a question by Mr. Luke, Mr. Gatewood said that he did not know that his brother was not supposed to have a gun.

“Did you see Albert hold a gun?” Mr. Luke inquired.

“No, I did not... I didn’t watch him the whole time,” he replied again.

“Could he have had a gun?” the Commonwealth’s Attorney insisted.

“I did not see it,” was Hie reply.

“Could he have put a gun on Jerome Veeney’s nose?” Mr. Luke asked.

“He could have - I did not see it,” Mr. Gatewood replied.

Under cross-examination by Frank Reynolds, Albert Gatewood’s attorney, Wanda Fuller said that she had not seen him with a weapon at Mrs. Gatewood’s house. ' Later, on Rt. 622, she told the court that “he told us to get out of the car - we did. Then he accused Jerome of sleeping with me in front of his daughter.” Albert then told her to leave, and when she refused, she said he asked, “Do you want to stay instead of him?”

“I asked Albert not to hurt Jerome,” Ms. Fuller testified. “He said he was not going to hurt him - that he just wanted to talk to him.”

Although she appeared as a witness for the Commonwealth, following Mr. Reynolds’ cross-examination Mr. Luke attempted to impeach her testimony. He cited several discrepancies between her testimony in court and a written statement which she had given to Capt. Ed Streapy of the Rappahannock Sheriffs Department shortly after the incident.

In court, Ms. Fuller testified that she had not seen or heard anything as she stood outside the Pine Knot

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