In their final bid to sway the jury on whether or not to recommend the death penalty for Patrick McDowell, prosecutors and McDowell’s defense team will make their closing arguments Thursday in his sentencing trial.
High and driving a stolen van, he nodded at a deputy at a Callahan gas station. Minutes later, the deputy was murderedFlorida’s current death penalty recommendation rulesto first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer, injuring a police dog and eight counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer.
“Mr. McDowell’s particular war zone experiences don’t include what we would call close-quarters combat. It used to be called hand-to-hand combat. But in other words, I didn’t feel that there was anything in that particular situation -- even when the deputy just reaches out and touches the door handle -- that would have particularly triggered PTSD responses,” the state’s witness said.
The jurors must now decide whether the threat of going back to jail or PTSD and drug abuse caused McDowell to shoot and kill Moyers.Other witnesses spoke to McDowell’s mental health and documented Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, saying his use of drugs and his condition likely contributed to McDowell shooting and killing Moyers.“This is difficult for me because I feel like that could be me sitting up there had I not made a different decision in life,” Daniel White said.
High and driving a stolen van, he nodded at a deputy at a Callahan gas station. Minutes later, the deputy was murderedsaw the effect his tours in Iraq had on him “He deserved so much more,” she said. “It’s a horrible nightmare as parents as our child was brutally murdered while he protected the community he loved and called home.”of the Sept. 23, 2021, traffic stop off U.S. 301 that ended in Moyers’ murder -- as the first deputy on the scene testified about what he saw.
When Moyers tried to pull McDowell over after following him from a nearby gas station, McDowell told Gale he wasn’t going to stop.But McDowell did eventually stop for Moyers, pulling off U.S. 301 onto Sandy Ford Road, and stopping just short of the railroad tracks.Gale said that when Moyers approached the van asking for their IDs, McDowell reached behind his seat for his handgun but then told Moyers there were no guns in the van when the deputy asked.
Gale testified that after McDowell shot the deputy and drove away, she told him she wanted out and he grabbed her by the arm, they ran into a wooded area, and she told him she wanted to go back. He let her go, and she called 911. McDowell ran the other way, sparking the five-day manhunt.
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