A Jacksonville, Fla., jury is hearing opening testimony in the November 2012 killing of 17-year-old Jordan Davis (pictured). Michael Dunn, 47, was charged with murder for killing Davis after a dispute over loud music coming from a car in which Davis was a passenger.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors are presenting their opening statements in the trial of a Florida man charged with fatally shooting a 17-year-old teen during an argument over loud music at a Jacksonville gas station.
Michael Dunn's trial is getting under way Thursday, a day after a panel of 12 jurors and four alternates was picked.
Authorities say 47-year-old Michael Dunn fatally shot Jordan Davis of Marietta, Ga., outside a convenience store in Jacksonville in November 2012. Dunn has claimed he felt threatened and thought Davis had a gun.
Dunn and Davis had begun arguing after Dunn complained that music coming from a vehicle with Davis and two friends was too loud.
The trial is expected to last more than a week.
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js1976 10 years, 2 months ago
Many of you affiliated with the JFP used every angle to use the race of Quardious Thomas as the reason so many of us supported his shooter, Mr Williams. Claiming that the lives of young black kids are more disposable than others. Tom Head even tried to use this incident as a comparison to the Quardious shooting.
Unlike the death of Quardious Thomas, Michael Dunn should be convicted of murdering this young man! He was not on his property, in the middle of the night, with a crime being commited against him. If he was so thinned skinned to not have the ability to handle a little trash talking from a 17 year old, then he should have kept his mouth shut about the music.
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