Testimony, Day Four

Testimony is underway again in the trial. Currently, Danny Lamont is on the stand. He retired from the Huntsville Police Department in October of 2008. He is a finger print expert. In fact, he worked for the FBI in the fingerprint division.

Lamont is speaking about the intricate details of how fingerprints work.

This could be titled, "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fingerprints, but Were Afraid to Ask."

Lamont is showing the jurors how he compared fingerprints in this case.

Lamont says fingerprints found at the scene and on the murder weapon, match those of Jamal Woods. The defense had no questions for Lamont.

Tosha Shoulders, the first cousin of Tank Beavers is on the stand.

She says Beavers wanted a career in the NBA. He also wanted to take care of his family.

Thurston Turner's father, Wyman Turner, is on the stand.

Thurston Turner died nine days after the shooting.

Turner was 27 at the time of his death. Wyman Turner says that he had conversations with his son while he was in the hospital. He says that Thurston only responded by moving his eyebrows.

He says Thurston reminded him of himself. Says he loved to played baseball and was good at almost every sport.

Mr. Turner says that at one time while he was speaking to Thurston, that a tear rolled down his face. He says he knows Thurston was hearing what they were saying to him. But toward the end he stopped responding when they spoke to him, so they asked doctors to remove the life support.

After a break, Jason Banks, a neuro-surgeon who treated Thurston Turner, is on the stand. He determined that he was clinically brain dead.

The defense just entered into evidence, a lab report that lists Thurston Turner's blood alcohol level as .161 at the time of the shooting. The legal level is .08.

James Rucker, HPD officer with the K-9 unit is on the stand. The prosecutor and Mr. Rucker are going over the qualification process for dogs in the K-9 unit, including his dog.

Officer Rucker responded to the scene of the shooting. He used his dog to start tracking suspects.

Court is in recess.

HPD Officer Chad Bryant is on the stand. He assisted James Rucker on the night of the shooting.

Chauncey Davis is on the stand. He went to TGI Fridays with Jamal Woods on the night of the shooting.

Davis is under cross examination. Larry Morgan is asking him if he remembers conversations that took place in the moments before the shooting.

Rotesia Woods, the wife of Jamal Woods is on the stand.

She was with Jamal the night of the shooting. She is the person Tank Beavers reportedly waved hello to in the restaurant.

She says Jamal asked her why Tank was waving. She said that she told Jamal that she knew them from school. She says Jamal yelled at Tank Beavers to turn the f*ck around.
She says Jamal did not understand why they were waving at her.

She says she did not see Jamal pull a weapon, and was instead trying to get his friends to go up and get Jamal. She says she then hear four or five gunshots.

Rotesia says that Jamal had a girlfriend at the time of the shooting.