Lonta Burress Jr. and Darius Gustus turn to watch the first witness approach the stand during the opening of the 2012 school bus stop shooting trial. Burress and Gustus are accused of being involved in a drive-by shooting in 2010 that targeted students exiting a school bus. No one was injured in the event.Prosecutors told a jury Tuesday that one of two local teens on trial in a 2010 school bus stop shooting admitted firing the weapon and named his co-defendant as manning a stolen truck during the nonfatal drive-by.
But defense attorneys John McDougal and Galen Pickard said police got the statement from defendant Darius Gustus while the teen was suffering from a head wound in a local hospital and on medication.
Gustus and Lonta Burress Jr. are on trial on charges including aggravated assault and evading arrest in connection with the Dec. 7, 2010, shooting. No one was injured in the shooting.
Their trial enters its second day this morning before Criminal Court Judge Don Poole.
McDougal questioned the evidence gathered by police and to be presented by prosecutors Cameron Williams and Bret Alexander.