Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Murder suspect slits own throat in court, now says he DESERVES NEW TRIAL because of it.
Episode Date: July 24, 2019Aubrey Trail has been convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Sydney Loofe. The 24 year old woman was on a date she planned through Tinder, but was murdered and dismembered by Trail and his g...irlfriend. During his trial, Trail slit his own throat in the court room and is now using that action to demand a new trial. Joining Nancy Grace to discuss the case, Forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan, Psychologist Caryn Stark, Attorney Jason Oshins and reporter Dave Mack. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
The last time family and friends saw 24-year-old Sydney Louf was in this Snapchat as she was
preparing for a second date with the woman she met on Tinder. Just like so many others,
the popular dating app leading to one million dates a week. Louv seen smiling in the photo
on November 15th, writing, ready for my date before vanishing. Now her date, 23-year-old
Bailey Boswell and 51-year-old Aubrey Trail being called persons of interest by Nebraska police.
By their own statements on social media, we believe that
Aubrey Trail and Bailey Boswell were two of the last people to have known to Ben with Sidney
prior to her disappearance. The search for Loof beginning when she missed a shift at the home
improvement store where she worked, her worried family pleading for help. Someone knows something, please, please do the right thing. A shocking moment. A man accused
of strangling his 24-year-old tender date, Sidney Loof, to death with an extension cord,
tries to slash his own throat in court after screaming out his killer girlfriend is innocent. I'm Nancy Grace.
This is Crime Stories. Did 52-year-old Aubrey Trail murder and dismember a 24-year-old girl,
Sydney Loof, in Nebraska? His girlfriend, his henchman in crime bailey boswell 25 years old herself did she help him murder and
dismember the girl in court this perv aubrey trail slashes his own throat during a court
hearing screaming out bailey's innocence and i curse you all I'll never forget getting a curse put on me
at the end of a sentence a really rich dude let's say he was a multi-millionaire
had whopped his wife in the head then set the house on fire his mansion and when the fire
department pulled up he was lounging a la romanesque in the yard across the street they talked to him for
about three full minutes as firemen were rushing other firemen were rushing toward the mansion
and only then did he go oh yes my wife's in there just you know how did he get out the window at
3 a.m fully dressed pants shirt belt car keys wallet shoes the works and his wife dies from the blaze just like here
straight out to dave matt crime online.com investigative reporter what happened nancy
it started with the uh the mobile phone app called tinder um sydney lufs 24 years old and
just trying to find you know like everybody else trying to find some you know
buddy that she can connect with she had gone out with uh bailey boswell the 25 year old
girlfriend of aubrey trail who you already talking about he was 51 bailey was 25 sydney
loup is 24 she and bailey connected on tinder and this was their second date okay and what we know is that
during the second date Bailey Boswell picked up Cindy Luth Sidney Luth at her home but it's at
that point that apparently Boswell and Trail had a game plan to kill Sidney Luth that night
and went about doing the most heinous crime you can possibly imagine.
We are talking about shocking video showing a man slashing his throat during his own trial
for murder in Nebraska. There in the courthouse, screaming out his girlfriend's innocence. Listen.
Hey guys, Jake Wysakowski, senior reporter with KMTV3 News and How. Just giving you a look at what's going on out here in the middle of court after some testimony this morning.
Aubrey Trail on trial for the first degree murder of Sidney Loof and the disappearance of Sidney Loof.
Actually yelled a statement and then apparently slashed his throat or tried to slash his throat multiple times.
So, sorry I'm a little out of breath breath we just kind of ran out of the courtroom.
So what I can tell you is that there was a couple of witnesses that had just got
down with testimony, an FBI agent and a person at a hotel they had stayed with
after the disappearance of Sidney Loof. And then Trail says, Bailey is innocent to hell with you all, to damn you all, something along those lines.
And then started apparently slashing his throat multiple times.
As you can see, they're backing up the ambulance.
The two accused of suffocating and dismembering a young woman, Bailey Boswell,
the co-defendant girlfriend, and Aubrey Trail, the so-called tender killer
victim Sidney Loof. Take a listen again to our friend at GMA, Amy Robach. Police and the FBI
beginning their search, combing through digital evidence and looking for Boswell and Trail,
who allegedly left town after Sidney's disappearance. We spent the last few days
watching ourselves being slammed and crucified in the newspapers. We thought it was time we had our say. The two posting this now deleted video to social media. She is a sweet, amazing girl. Boswell saying in the video that she dropped Sydney off after their date. She asked me to drop her off at a friend's house. So I so I gave her my number I mean I haven't heard from
her since. The pair now in police custody reportedly being held on a federal person of interest warrant
in the disappearance of Lou. Straight out to Dave Mack crimeonline.com investigative reporter
now the 51 year old male Aubrey Trails defense arguing Sidney's death was an accident. So what? Somebody
has an accidental death and you dismember them? Hold on, Jason Oceans, what about that?
That's pretty hard to unintentionally dismember, Nancy. I mean, that's a pretty intentional act,
notwithstanding destruction of a body. But yeah, I'm not familiar with anything on the defense side
other than other total, you know, mentally incompetent psycho sociopaths
that engage in something like that.
Otherwise, get rid of the evidence.
To Karen Stark, New York psychologist, you can find her at karenstark.com.
Apparently, he admits to strangling his girlfriend's female tinder date
in a five-way sex fantasy that went wrong okay a fantasy is one thing but she's dead karen stark
what does this tell you well it tells me that it didn't go wrong, Nancy, that they were living out this fantasy.
There's certainly, we know, everyone knows the difference between having a fantasy and actually somebody being dead and dismembering their body.
So he intended to do this from the start.
They were actually out there soliciting somebody, and this poor innocent girl thought she's going on a date.
He claims the victim took part in his fantasy voluntarily.
He said that his real girlfriend, Boswell, just 25, with whom he lived,
was wiped out on drugs and had no idea what was going on.
Is there any evidence to refute that?
To Joe Scott Morgan, forensics expert, author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon,
forensics professor, Jacksonville State University,
what proves the case against the girlfriend?
Well, I think that her willing participation, Nancy,
she's the one that actually engaged and helped target, first off, this poor woman.
And then she went out and physically made contact with her and then took this girl after they kind of prepped her, took her out on another date, and then brought her back at some point in time in which this fantasy was enacted. was inactive.
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
20 days after she vanished, digital clues leading authorities to what they believe to be Louvre's body.
We do believe that there is evidence of foul play.
Sydney Louvre's family reacting to the news on Facebook saying, may God grant eternal
rest unto thee. We love you, Sydney. Her friends telling us she was careful when using the
dating app.
She usually always sent a picture of the person that she was going on a date with. She would
let us know whether it was going to be at her house, their house, in public. We are talking about shocking video showing a man
slashing his throat during his own trial for murder in Nebraska. They're in the courthouse.
Apparently, he admits to strangling his girlfriend's female Tinder date in a five-way sex fantasy that went wrong okay so she goes she targets her
she brings her out on a date then delivers her to the murder scene is there at the time
of the murder and apparently managed to at the very, wake up in her drug-induced haze and
dismember the body. To Joe Scott Morgan, forensics expert, author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon,
forensics professor, Jacksonville State University, I think she was there for the whole thing.
Yeah, I'd have to agree as well, Nancy. And the thing about it is dismembering a body is not as very simple as someone might think. This is a highly involved action. You know, when this poor young woman's
body was eventually found, it had already been wrapped in plastic bags. This gives you an
indication if you're going to participate in this kind of behavior, there has to be prep work that
is done in order to facilitate that. And I don't think this guy acted alone.
I think that they're in concert together in this event.
So question to you, Joe Scott, what would prove this was no accident?
Well, the fact, I think that they specifically traumatized this girl in some particular way.
What they're going to be looking for, and I don't know how difficult this might be given the decomposition of the remains because
remember her body was not found for another week after these two were arrested that could compromise
any kind of hemorrhage that was there say for instance in her airway but they have something
specific Nancy because what they're talking about here is that she died of an asphyxial type death
that means that she was either smothered, suffocated, or asphyxiated
with a ligature. So let me understand this. He, the killer, is saying it was asphyxiation.
So how could we, other than his statement, how could we prove that physically? Well, let's say,
for instance, that her head is still intact and we can observe her eyes. Those particular hemorrhages,
those little pinprick hemorrhages, those little pinprick
hemorrhages that cause as a result of pressure being built up in the vascular system, they kind
of explode in the eyes. That would still be visible at that point. There are also other
surfaces within the body that are going to carry hemorrhage. If her neck is still intact, this area,
let's say for instance, there's a ligature that's applied to this, the skin beneath, the tissue beneath the skin can actually be observed. You can find hemorrhage in
what's referred to as the strap muscles that run adjacent to the windpipe, and that can give an
indication of asphyxiation as a result of a ligature strangulation. When you keep saying
hemorrhages, you're talking about bruises, right? Yeah, you're absolutely right, Nancy. And these bruises are going to take the form, say for instance, that
we're talking about a cord that's going to have a very line-like or linear appearance, as opposed to
if someone actually used their bare hands to choke her, that's going to have a kind of a broader area
of hemorrhage that's easily delineated at the morgue. Dave Mack, weigh in.
You know, the fact that Sidney's body was not recovered whole is indicative of the fact
that Aubrey Trail had this planned out way in advance.
Just by the fact that her body was found 14 different pieces chopped up and wrapped in
plastic, all of the items had to have been bought beforehand. So the, you know, the defense idea
that Aubrey Trail, in a moment of passion, they got out of hand, ended up accidentally suffocating
the woman. But he just so happens to have 14 spare bags off to the side that he purchased at, you
know, your local hardware store, and then chopped up the body into 14 different pieces and then scattered them along
the highway. That just blows the idea of an accidental suffocation death out of the water.
Listen. Court documents confirm grisly details in the death of Sidney Loof and also says that
the killing was premeditated and not an accident as Aubrey Trail has previously stated. The criminal
complaint says that Trail acknowledged that he strangled Loof to death with an extension cord. not an accident as Aubry stated. The criminal comp
acknowledged that he stra
with an extension court.
Boswell assisted in clean
and assisted in disposing
body was found in December
The court documents also
were found in several dif trash bags in Clay County.
The court documents also say that surveillance video from a Home Depot show Boswell and Trail
buying what prosecutors say are supplies and tools for killing Loof before she even disappeared.
To you, Dave Mack, how will this entire drama in court, the suicide attempt, affect the case against him?
Aubrey Trail was found guilty of first-degree murder, but he was also found guilty of criminal conspiracy to commit murder.
Well, here's the thing, Jason Oceans, a defendant, a suspect, can ask for a trial because something unfair happened in court, right?
Either there was a bad ruling or the state did something wrong.
But when he causes the commotion himself, it's going to be tough for him to get trial.
That's on him.
It is on him. You know, again, the court, you know, if that's appealed, it goes through and defense files a motion for mistrial is denied.
You know, that could be appealable to the extent that the
court found that it was such. Oh, please stop it. Stop it. Stop it, Jason, because then you could
get another trial and do it again. Try to strangle himself. It's fine. And he did cause it. I'm just
saying procedurally from that perspective. Nancy, Nancy, hold on a second. His attorneys, Aubrey Trails attorneys have asked for a new trial.
One of the oddest things about this case has been the actual trial where Aubrey Trail at trial tried to cut his own throat and yelled and screamed stuff about how his girlfriend was innocent and all that. Well, look, I want you to keep something in mind. 14 days of testimony, two days of jury
selection, and it still took a jury less than three hours to convict this guy. Now, his attorneys,
Aubrey Trail's attorneys, they're claiming that when Aubrey Trail tried to cut his own throat in
court and was yelling and screaming that his girlfriend Bailey was innocent, right, that he
did that in front of the jury. They're saying that the judge should have declared a mistrial right then
because of Aubrey Trail doing that in front of the jury.
That's one of the reasons that his lawyers are citing as a reason for getting a new trial.
Now, they even cited some other irregularities, okay, in their reasoning for wanting a new trial.
They actually cited misconduct by the jury, but no specific examples were provided for that. So, I mean, that's part
one of this big bag of crazy. Part two was that Aubrey Trail actually asked for the jury that
actually convicted him to not be the ones to sentence him. He asked for a three-judge panel to do the sentencing.
They have yet to set the date for that hearing,
so we don't even know about a death penalty yet.
But we know that right after the trial,
he immediately files saying that the judge in the case
should have declared a mistrial after Aubrey Trail
slashed his own throat in court in front of the jury.
He's not getting a new trial. Listen. It was four weeks of testimony, 900 exhibits,
and they weren't even out for three hours. And I don't even think they
had exhibits delivered until an hour after they went out. We, the jury, duly handled and sworn do well and truly try and true deliverance make
between the state of Nebraska and Aubrey C. Trail the defendant do find the said
defendant as to the charge of count one murder in the first degree guilty of
murder in the first degree by purposely and with deliberate and premeditated malice, killing
Sidney Luth on, about, or between November 15th and or 16th, 2017, in the County of Saline,
State of Nebraska.
We, the jury, duly impaneled and sworn, do well and truly try and true deliverance,
made between the state of Nebraska and Auburn C. Trammell, the defendant,
do find the said defendant as to the charge of count two,
criminal conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree,
guilty of criminal conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree.
Dave Mack, what more do you know?
Nancy, Bailey Boswell is the much younger girlfriend of Aubrey Trails, and as it's been
reported in the media, it's almost like a setup that he's the older crazy guy, the deviant,
and she, that Bailey somehow might be a victim of his master plan.
I don't see it like that.
When you actually look at the information that we have available,
Bailey Boswell was involved in planning.
She was involved in communicating with Sidney in this particular case,
but other young women as well who could have been victims.
She was involved in buying the plastic that was going to be used
to wrap up the body parts of Sidney.
She was involved in getting rid of the body parts.
She even posted a video on Facebook
to try to pretend that all was well.
I mean, she was a part of this plot from beginning to end.
Make no mistake, Bailey Boswell is not a victim at all.
And her trial this fall will prove that. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
And again, I'm holding here until I get help with a15, Robert, asking for a teaser for Armored Defender.
What a night.
Popped our tire on our car, squad.
Popped.
10-4.
Anybody close?
4-0.
There are more by car.
45, Robert.
We're about two blocks away.
45, Robert, 10-4 again.
First unit with them, let me know.
15, Robert, car love good, or you guys more by plus, you know?
Right, going right to the birdie.
Headed to the birdie.
Robert, I see you pulling up.
21, Robert, where are you now?
21, Robert, 10-4.
41, Robert, go ahead and run sir? 21 Robert, 10-4. Hey, 41 Robert, go ahead and fire.
41 Robert, 10-4.
He is running away.
Let me know when he's in custody, guys.
He's fired by the police.
He's fired by the police.
He's going to go over here.
Okay, good job. Charlie, go on. 17-year-old, is gunned down.
Joining me right now, syndicated talk show host Dave Mack.
Dave, what happened?
Police were called because there was a report of a young person
breaking into cars with a knife.
Multiple police converged on the scene.
And when we first see the, you can hear on that 911,
or the dispatch calls back and forth between law enforcement and dispatch,
that they drive through a parking lot of a Burger King.
That's on the dash cam video that we can see as Laquan is trying to run away from the police.
Okay, stop right there. Stop right there.
You're telling me in the video you see the 17-year-old running from police?
Yes, ma'am.
You actually can see him run directly in front of one of the
dash cam videos that clearly shows him sprinting through the Burger King parking lot. Why was he
running from police? Well, they were called because they had a report that there was somebody
breaking into cars and that the perpetrator allegedly had a knife. That was the first call.
When police arrived, he took off. What I'm trying to determine is whether he was a threat.
Kenyon Johnson, Atlanta prosecutor.
No.
When you have a fleeing felon, if they pose a threat, like they're firing a gun or they're armed and dangerous, that allows police to shoot them.
In this case, I'm not hearing that.
I'm hearing he was breaking into cars.
If it's alleged that he had a weapon on him,
then that certainly is a threat for police.
But where this changes is that the young man was walking away from the police.
Hold on.
Hold on, Kenya.
Kenya Johnson, you know, you've had a lot of courtroom success,
but let me give you a little phrase you may want to use in the future.
Don't bring a knife to a gunfight, okay?
All he has is a knife.
The cops are armed.
They're armed, and they're wearing bulletproof vests.
So he has a knife, and he's's running away as you accurately pointed out.
What happened then, Dave Mack? Police surrounded Laquan as he runs through the Burger King parking
lot. He is trying to get away. The police pretty much surround him on three different sides as he
walks down the middle of the street. Now they're yelling multiple commands, drop the knife,
you know, get down. And he's not responsive to that, but he's not facing any of them. He's
walking away. He's nonchalantly walking away, is what is shown on the video from the dash cam.
He is surrounded by multiple police officers. That's when Officer Van Dyke gets out of the car
and within a matter of seconds, shooting. Now when you're saying
dash cam not everybody knows what that means. What is dash cam? Explain. Well the police officer
vehicles actually have a camera that is posted on the dashboard of each vehicle so that you can
actually see their perspective or at least the perspective directly in front of their vehicles
as they're responding to a call and after they're're at the scene, as we saw in this, where it actually gives
you a static video of whatever takes place. Joining me, Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor
Forensics, Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon. Joe Scott, why is there such a thing as dash cam video and now body cam video?
Well, it helps everybody, you know, so that you can get the story straight. It's a live,
real-time videography of the events as the police are witnessing from their perspective. Generally,
for the police officer, the cam is positioned center mass on their chest so that they're looking out.
Sometimes they'll have it attached to their head, but most of the time it's on their chest.
This gives you an idea as to what they're seeing, and you can get it from multiple perspectives.
For instance, in this particular case, there are multiple units arriving on scene.
You have both body cam views and you have dash cam views.
So to you, Dave Mack, syndicated talk show host, what does the video show?
The video on this one dash cam that we actually clearly shows that Laquan is walking down the middle of the street.
He is, and I say this nonchalantly
because he's not threatening.
He's not even sprinting anymore.
He's actually walking down the middle of the street.
He is surrounded by police officers,
and they know that there's a police officer on the road
that has a taser gun.
He's not approaching any police.
He's just walking down the middle of the street,
ignoring them as if nobody's there.
Listen. When he got 10 to 15 feet away from you, what did he do? He's just walking down the middle of the street ignoring them as if nobody's there listen
When he got 10 to 15 feet away from me, what did he do?
He never lost eye contact
Guys are bugging how his face was just expressionless
He turned his torso towards me.
And what did he do with his arm?
He waved the knife from his lower right side upwards across his body towards my
left shoulder. And when he did that, what did you do, officer? I shot him.
Jason Van Dyke under oath to Dave Mack. Is that to you, Dave Mack, syndicated talk show host?
How many times was he shot? Nancy, he was shot 16 times. To Dr. Chris Sperry joining us, retired chief medical examiner.
Dr. Sperry, 16 gunshot wounds.
What can you tell me about Laquan McDonald's body?
He was riddled with gunshot wounds.
And it's amazing of the 16 times that he was shot, almost all of the gunshots hit his arms and legs.
Actually, of the 16, there were only two of the gunshot wounds which produced lethal or potentially lethal injuries.
One struck his trachea or the windpipe in his neck, and the other struck his right lung.
But the other 14 gunshot wounds struck his arms and legs, fractured bones, and caused a lot of soft tissue injury.
But there were only two that really ended up being the lethal shot. Dr. Sperry, how does a wound to the trachea or the lung,
how does that end up being deadly?
It seems to me that, I mean, I'm just a JD, you're the MD.
How does that end up in a deadly wound to be shot in the trachea or the lung?
Well, a gunshot wound to the lung
causes massive bleeding inside of the chest cavity
where the lung sits.
Because the lung is a giant sponge of blood.
And when we breathe, the air goes in the lung
and all of the billions of little blood vessels
take up the oxygen and take it to our body.
So it's a giant sponge and a gunshot wound will tear through the lung and cause massive bleeding.
A gunshot wound of the trachea is serious because this is our windpipe.
This is how we breathe to get air down into the lung.
And this will produce severe bleeding in the airway,
and unfortunately it will cause someone to actually suffocate on their own blood. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. 18, a 17-year-old is gunned down running from police.
Listen to ABC 7.
Van Dyke is the first Chicago police officer to face first-degree murder charges in decades.
He was charged on the eve of the video's release,
which was more than a year after 17-year-old McDonald was killed.
Angelo says the video does not tell the whole story.
I think Officer Van Dyke steps into his training mode and takes action that he believed at that time was justified.
Okay, so to you, Dave Mack, how damning is that video? What does it prove? It shows that Laquan was not in any way a threat to the police officers on the scene at the time he was struck.
But it shows much more than that.
It actually shows that he was shot many, many times after the first shot took him down.
There were so many shots after he was laying in the middle of the street.
Not a threat to anyone.
So to you, Joseph Scott Morgan, that's against all police protocol I've ever heard of.
Yeah, yeah, it is, Nancy.
Once the threat is neutralized at that point, it's pointless to go on. And it gives people that watch it this idea that the individuals are indifferent to this person's life,
that it's overkill.
Even in the video, for our fans that have not seen it,
you can see debris flying up off of the asphalt as the bullets strike the asphalt.
So it really paints a very sour picture.
Let me ask you, Dave Mack,
why did it take a year for the dash cam video to turn up?
Nancy, it took 13 months, 400 days,
and the police and the city actually fought it.
It was only after a judge forced them to release the dash cam video.
It was the release of the dash cam video
that brought about the charges
against officer van dyke uh the uh officer was charged just a matter of hours before they
actually had to release it they didn't want to release that video they tried to hold it back to
prevent the city and the people from seeing it i don't understand that to To Kenya Johnson, Atlanta prosecutor, you know, I hate it when there is wrongdoing on behalf of cops.
And it's happened with cops that I've used in vice cases before because it tanks every case they've ever touched.
Why? But still, long story short, the state is duty bound to seek justice. Why would they fight the release of the video?
Well, the law protects ongoing investigations. So even if you were to file an open records request,
as long as the investigation is still open or the agency says it is, then they're not bound
to release it. However, those elected officials that run on transparency, that's what
the public wants to hear, and they want to be able to have access to this. And so the people that have
no problems, they're not afraid of what they've done, they feel like they're justified, then they
should just go ahead and release it and allow the public to form their own opinion, which ultimately
is going to happen anyway. Listen to Officer Jason Van Dyke under oath.
What was Laquan McDonald doing?
Advancing on me.
And could you see him, his face?
Yeah, I could. I won't forget it.
What if anything did you notice about his face?
His face had no expression. His eyes were just bugging out of his head. He had just these huge white eyes just staring right through me.
And did you say anything to him when he was done?
I was yelling at him, drop the knife. I yelled, I don't know how many times, but that's all I yelled.
And did he keep advancing toward you?
He never stopped.
How close did he get to you?
He got probably about 10 to 15 feet away from me.
To Dave Mack, is that what the video shows?
No, ma'am.
And actually, you know when he says that Laquan was advancing on him?
If you go back and watch that dash cam video, you can actually see Laquan walking in a straight line down the street.
The only person advancing was Officer Van Dyke
when he exits the vehicle and continues to approach Laquan.
Listen to ABC 7.
The suspended police officer will have his day in court.
Today appears to begin the legal process
that will likely result in Jason Van Dyke on trial for murder.
The Chicago police officer at the center of a controversial civilian shooting had no comment
as he walked into a Cook County courthouse
amid heckling from the crowd.
Make a hole.
I let him through.
Like the 16 holes he put in that boy.
Today, Officer Jason Van Dyke pleaded not guilty
for the murder of Laquan McDonald.
Video of the shooting gained national attention.
McDonald's family wants the court proceedings
to also get as much attention.
McDonald was shot 16 times last October.
Police had been pursuing McDonald
for allegedly trying to break in to park cars.
Officer Van Dyke, now suspended
from the Chicago Police Department,
was on the scene for seconds before firing at the 17-year-old.
Prosecutors previously alleged some of the shots were fired
once the teenager with a three-inch folding knife was on the ground.
You can listen to our friends at Fox 32.
The Jason Van Dyke jury heard today from two eyewitnesses to the Laquan McDonald shooting,
one of them a police officer, Jason Van Dyke's partner,
the other one a 26-year-old man who just happened upon the scene.
While he was on his feet, did you see him make any threatening movements?
No.
After he's on the ground and you said you heard more and more shots did you see him make any threatening
movements no not at all xavier torres's father was driving him to the hospital with flu symptoms
when they noticed a lot of police activity and went to see what was going on torres told the
jury that laquan mcdonald did not appear to be threatening police before he was shot what did
it appear he was doing when he was walking southwest? It just, again, looked like he was trying to get away from all the officers. Torres's
testimony was contradicted by Jason Van Dyke's partner on the night of the shooting. Former
officer Joseph Walsh testified that dash cam video of the incident doesn't reflect what he saw.
My angle is totally different from that
perspective, he told the jury. Well, the jury got to see it for themselves. Listen to this.
We, the jury, find the defendant, Jason Van Dyke, guilty of second-degree murder.
We, the jury, find the defendant, Jason Van Dyke, guilty of aggravated battery with a firearm. First shot. We the jury find the defendant
Jason Van Dyke guilty of aggravated battery with a firearm. Second shot. We the jury find the
defendant Jason Van Dyke guilty of aggravated battery with a firearm. Sixth shot. Nancy Grace,
Crime Stories, signing off.
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