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State v. Reed6/25/2002
e asked him a direct question. Grandberry said the defendant began talking "crazy" and retrieved a shotgun from the backseat as they pulled up behind Corey Dean's vehicle. The defendant pointed the gun at Dean. When Dean realized a gun was aimed at him, he drove away, and the defendant followed him. The victim and Dwayne Draine then drove by. When the defendant saw these two men, he stopped following Dean and started following the victim and Draine. The defendant said nothing to Grandberry as he followed the victim's car up Hill Street and down Simonton Street. The defendant flashed money at the victim, and the victim signaled to the defendant that he had drugs for sale. The defendant followed the victim's car to Simonton Street, where the two cars pulled up next to one another. The defendant yelled at the victim and Draine to give him all of their "cheese," which is slang for money. Grandberry said the defendant was "talking in his own world" by then, and he encouraged the defendant to leave the victim and Draine alone. The defendant replied that he "didn't give a fuck," and Grandberry told him to let him out of the car. As Grandberry got out of the car at the stop sign on Simonton Street, he noticed that the defendant had the shotgun in his hand. Grandberry went to a friend's house on Hill Street where he tried to call to the defendant's mother. As he was leaving his friend's house, Grandberry heard a gunshot.
Grandberry said that the defendant usually listened to what he said, but, on the day of the shooting, "[the defendant] wasn't his self ." Grandberry described the defendant as follows: " is eyes were just - they were wide open and was red, and he was just sitting there, and he was staring. He wasn't - he was just there, like he wasn't - you know, if you'd say something, he wouldn't - he didn't hear nothing you was saying."
Pearlie Currin testified that on March 11, 1997, she had parked her car on Craig Street while waiting for her granddaughter to pick up her school pictures. Currin described what happened after her granddaughter got out of the car:
Well, I was just sitting there waiting on my granddaughter, and there was two guys in the car. Another car pulled up along side this car, and I thought maybe they was going to talk, until I seen something stick out of the window, and then I heard a shot. And my granddaughter ran to the car, she started screaming, and I got out of the car, screaming for her. And the car pulled off and liked to hit mine.
Currin could not identify the shooter because she did not see his face. However, she did say that the shooter was a black male. She said she never went to the car to see who had been shot.
John Terrell Sales testified that he learned that the victim had been shot, and he, Franklin Williams, and Eddie Poindexter were on their way to the hospital to see the victim when they encountered the defendant. Sales said the defendant, who was alone in his car, pointed a shotgun at them near the Midway Market at Mount Carmel. The defendant followed Sales's car from the Midway Market to Maple Street, a distance of about two or three miles. Sales did not know the defendant but thought that Williams and Poindexter knew him. Sales said that they were able to get away from the defendant when they stopped an officer on the road, and the defendant fled the scene. The three men told the officer that they were being chased by the defendant, who had a gun. Sales, Williams, and Poindexter immediately went to the police station and gave statements about the incident.
Dwayne Draine testified that he was with the victim the day he died. Draine admitted that he had pled guilty to aggravated robbery in the Tipton Co
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