Cortez Sims walks into Judge Barry Steeleman's courtroom at the start of his trial on Tuesday.
Defense attorneys declined to give a closing argument this morning in the Cortez Sims murder case after prosecutors outlined their total proof to jurors.
"Hold him accountable for the hell he unleashed on the second floor of that apartment at 773 West Main Street," Assistant District Attorney Kevin Brown said.
Body camera footage, witness testimony and police work pointed to Sims, 19, as the shooter on Jan. 7, 2015, Brown said.
The attack killed 20-year-old Talitha Bowman, paralyzed a baby, and injured two others, Marcel Christoper and Bianca Horton.
Brown said Sims was a member of the Athens Park Bloods and went to the apartment to carry out his revenge on Marcel Christopher, an associate of the Bounty Hunter Bloods.
Those gangs had been embroiled in a yearlong feud in 2014 that carried into 2015 after Deoaunte Dean, an Athens Park Blood member, was found dead on New Years, prosecutors said throughout the trial, which started Wednesday.
Prosecutors rested their case Thursday evening, giving defense attorneys the chance to call their own witnesses this morning.
But the defense waived its right to present proof today and said the state's evidence pointed to another member of a different Blood gang in multiple cross examinations.
The Times Press will not name that person since he was never charged in the 2015 crime.
Prosecutors called him and his girlfriend before resting their case Thursday and introduced receipts that put both of them at a hotel in East Ridge on Jan. 7, 2015.
A defendant has a right not to testify, present his own witnesses, or give a closing argument.
Jurors will begin deliberating after they return from lunch break and have instructions read to them.
Sims faces life in prison if convicted of his first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and employing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony charges.
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