Chattanooga police work the scene where a shooting took place at the 800 block of 13th Street Court.The officer spoke of knives with blue and green handles.
“If I could get you to step down,” the prosecutor said, “and show them to the jury please “
Greg Mardis, of the Chattanooga Police Department, strode across the carpet in Hamilton County Criminal Court. He slipped on a pair of black gloves and pulled a gleaming silver knife from a manila envelope.
He balanced the hilt in the palm of his hand, walking up and down the jury box, 14 pairs of eyes following him. Mardis unsheathed the second knife and pinched the hilt with his fingers. He showed this knife to the jury, too, took off his gloves, and sat back down in the witness box. “I’d like to have the evidence marked separately,” the prosecutor said, and jurors continued listening to the second day of testimony in the murder trial of 22-year-old Taylor Satterfield.
Prosecutors say Satterfield drove to College Hill Courts and fatally shot the mother of his children, Keiara Patton, 20, during an argument in her apartment on May 13, 2014. He fled the unit to dispose of evidence, they said, and officers found him later at Erlanger hospital with a group of people desperate to learn Patton’s condition.