Mobile County prosecutors on Tuesday wasted no time getting to the heart of the case against Dajoune Dubose, playing body camera footage of him shooting a police officer.
Jurors on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, see body camera footage showing Mobile police Sgt. Ben Towarnyckyj getting shot in November 2018.Mobile Sgt. Ben Towarnyckyj, the state’s first witness, testified that he had just come on duty on Nov. 9, 2018, and responded to a report of a stolen vehicle at the Walmart on Cottage Hill and Hillcrest roads.
The body camera footage played for jurors showed what happened next. Jurors saw a flash from a .22-caliber pistol and heard the sound of a gunshot. “Gunshot. Gunshot,” the officer says in the video clip.Towarnyckyj testified that time seemed to slow down. Towarnyckyj testified that he retreated behind his patrol vehicle and fired back three times before the car sped away. He testified that he suffered a gunshot wound, the bullet entering his arm and traveling up to his shoulder, where it remains lodged to this day.Williams told jurors he will ask them at the end of the trial to find the 24-year-old Mobile defendant guilty of attempted murder and theft.
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