CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Jurors have heard their first account of what happened in the seconds when a white Charlotte police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man looking for help after a car crash.
Footage from officer Adam Neal’s dashboard camera was shown publically for the first time Wednesday as Neal testified in the third day of fellow officer Randall Kerrick’s voluntary manslaughter trial.
Neal will return to the stand when the trial continues Thursday morning.
On the September 2013 video, Jonathan Ferrell runs out of the camera’s view just before he is shot and Kerrick can’t be seen firing his gun 12 times. But the sound of each shot was recorded through the microphone on Neal’s uniform, along with the voice of someone yelling “Get on the ground!” three times.
Ferrell was hit by 10 bullets.