Reply #21: FBI expert: First shot not a warning (CA) [View All]

[MrBenchley]

"OAKLAND -- Stuart Alexander launched his deadly attack on food inspectors by blasting a shot into Tom Quadros of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, not the ceiling of Santos Linguisa Factory, a FBI video and weapons expert told jurors Monday.
Despite opposition by Assistant Public Defender Michael Ogul, who has intimated in court that Alexander fired a warning shot before killing three meat inspectors and trying to shoot a fourth, Philip Williams of the FBI was allowed to give moment-by-moment analysis that indicated Alexander executed inspectors in a surprise onslaught June 21, 2000.
Williams used an Apple lap-top computer on the witness stand to slowly replay, pause and zoom in on sequences of digitized surveillance images projected on a large screen on a wall opposite the jury box in the courtroom of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Vern Nakahara.
Williams called attention to muzzle flashes, spent cartridges in flight, pistol recoils, shifting clothing, jerking limbs and other indicators he used to deduce when shots were fired or inspectors were hit by bullets. "

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