Prosecutors rested their case this afternoon against Derek Morse, the 23-year-old man on trial for murder in the 2014 Lookout Valley triple homicide.
After a weekend recess, prosecutors played a 12-minute phone call that Morse made after he was arrested April 10, 2014, for the slayings of Caleb Boozer, John Lang and Jon Morris.
Morse said he wasn’t guilty and asked a person on the other end to write down a timeline of events: He went to Walmart with a friend, Michael Shavers, connected with his friend, Jacob Allison, and then played video games with Allison and a third man, Skyler Allen.
Prosecutors have a different version of events.
Motivated by a violent incident five days earlier at the Food Lion, Morse got Allison, then a minor, to drive him and Allen to a trailer on Kellys Ferry Road. There, he and Allen opened fire, killing everyone except 16-year-old Matthew Callan.