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knew. He said, “Other fights broke out, and some guy said ‘I am going to get my tech’.” (A tech is a gun.)
The defendant said that he and his friends then went to the door to go outside. The man at the door would not let them out, “so I hit him,” said the defendant. “When we got to our car, we heard gunshots. We got in the car and went to Culpeper. I did hot have a gun; none of us did,” said the defendant.
He said that he was wearing a heavy grey sweatshirt and had it on the whole night. Earlier testimony by two of the Commonwealth’s witnesses claimed that the defendant was not wearing a shirt at all.
Two friends of the defendant, Greg Orange and Gary Carter, testified in support of the defendant’s version of events, but in rebuttal Major Streapy said he had interviewed them both in January 1993, and at that time Mr. Orange said he arrived at the Pine Knot after the shooting, and Mr. Carter said he had not been at the Pine Knot that night.
In his closing argument, Mr. Luke said, “It comes down to who fired the gun. The only issue in this case is Who pulled the trigger?’ Mr. Jones was an eye witness who saw the defendant fire the gun. It is one thing when you shoot someone you are in a fight with, but the defendant had no regard for who was in that building. He could have easily killed someone. I hope you will consider the seriousness of this crime.”
The defendant’s attorney, Roy Bradley, closed with “The sole question is Who shot Walter Freeman?’ How could Moses Jones have seen around that corner in the dark? Is it more likely that it was someone else? It is easier to blame it on someone from out of town.”
This was the second time this case was brought to Circuit Court. The first trial in October 1993 ended in a mistrial.
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