Julian PasleyJulian Pasley, out of prison for only 47 days, told police he didn’t mean to kill Malik Blackstock.
Police say Pasley, 19, told a witness that the April 7 fatal shooting of the 18-year-old Blackstock was an accident. Pasley, who is already facing Criminal Court charges for aggravated robbery and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery, was charged with criminal homicide.
At a Thursday hearing in Hamilton County General Sessions Court, witnesses said Pasley was “playing” with a gun the night Blackstock was shot. But Assistant District Attorney Lance Pope said the killing was intentional, and may even have been motivated by gang rivalry.
One witness, a woman who said she’d known both Pasley and Blackstock for several years, said she and the two men had been smoking marijuana at another woman’s house the night of the shooting.
She said that at one point she walked into a bedroom to find Pasley “playing” with a revolver.