Donald StuardThe man with the swollen jaw and wired mouth talked slowly about Sept. 5.
Adam Brown said he had pulled into the Kangaroo gas station with his 10-year-old son. They walked inside, bought drinks, he paid for gas. Then he moved his top-down convertible to a shady side of the parking lot so his son could sell candy bars for a school fundraiser.
Prosecutor Lance Pope asked Brown in court if he had any knives, guns, bats or sticks in the car.
No, Brown said.
But shortly after that, Brown encountered Donald Thomas Stuard II in the parking lot. And Stuard shot him in the face, Brown said Tuesday in Hamilton County General Sessions Court.