At another trial in the Midwest that involved an unarmed teenager being gunned down by a older man who accused him of being suspicious, a mother stood on the witness stand to talk about the last breath her son took.
In Milwaukee, a tearful Patricia Larry described the moment when her white neighbor, John Henry Spooner, shot her 13-year-old son, Darius Simmons, to death.
Her shocking testimony came on the second day of Spooner’s trial, the same day jurors watched the horrifying video of Spooner approaching Darius, pointing the gun at the teen’s chest and shooting him to death in front of his home.
The mother refused to watch the surveillance video.
In her testimony, Larry tells the jury that her son ran after being shot, but collapsed shortly after. She found him on the ground with a light pulse in his neck.
“Then I pulled his shirt up and I (saw) he had a bullet hole in his chest,’ she testified tearfully. ‘He took one more breath and that’s it.”
We reported on the story back in June 2012, just months after Trayvon Martin was shot in a similar manner by George Zimmerman. At the time, police said they were investigating whether there was a history of disagreement between Spooner and Darius.
But now defense attorney Franklyn Gimbel said the two issues for the jury to decide are whether Spooner intended to kill the boy, and whether Spooner was suffering from mental illness that prevented him from knowing right from wrong at the time.
Spooner is being tried for first-degree intentional homicide.
If convicted, he faces life in prison.
We’ll keep you updated on the latest in this case.
SOURCE: Daily Mail
