Cortez Sims
Three hours after a man in a hoodie killed her friend and paralyzed her daughter, Bianca Horton was handed six photographs by a police officer.
She looked at the first one – a young black man – and flipped past it.
On the second photo, she stopped. This was the shooter, she told police. She signed her initials behind the photo at 4:06 a.m. on Jan. 7, 2015.
Prosecutors and police replayed that tape-recorded interaction with Horton, one of four victims in a fatal College Hill Courts shooting, during an evidentiary hearing for her accused killer Wednesday in Hamilton County Criminal Court.
As prosecutor Lance Pope slid a photo onto the courtroom projector, he turned to the officer on the witness stand. “Who is that?” he asked.