Michael RobersonA woman whose eyes were gouged out in September testified against her accused attacker Wednesday, helping Chattanooga prosecutors send his criminal charges to a grand jury.
Three officers led Tinesia Davenport into a Hamilton County General Sessions courtroom and sat the 33-year-old mother down in the witness box. Davenport was face-to-face with Michael Roberson, who is charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated assault.
But she couldn’t see him, the judge or the attorneys.
“Ms. Davenport, my name’s Neal Pinkston,” the Hamilton County district attorney general said, “and I’m to your right. Judge [Clarence] Shattuck is also to your right. How do you know Mr. Roberson?”
Wearing a bandage over where her eyes used to be, Davenport recalled Sept. 27, the night her former boyfriend tried to kill her, she said.