JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Florida man charged with fatally shooting a
17-year-old boy after an argument over loud music testified Tuesday that
he thought he saw the barrel of a gun from a neighboring vehicle pointed
at him and that he feared for his life before firing his weapon.

Michael Dunn said he tried to calm down the confrontation with three
teens in a neighboring SUV outside a Jacksonville convenience store in
November 2012.

“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and hearing,” the 47-year-old said.

Dunn is charged with first-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty and
says he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot 17-year-old Jordan
Davis of Marietta, Ga., outside a Jacksonville convenience store in 2012.

The defense rested its case Tuesday, and then prosecutors called Dunn’s
fiancee back to the witness stand. Rhonda Rouer contradicted Dunn’s
assertion that he had told her he had seen a gun in the teens’ SUV.
Closing arguments were expected Wednesday.

Prosecutors also played a video of Dunn’s jailhouse interview in which
he couldn’t explain why he didn’t call police after the shooting. Also
in it, detectives picked apart Dunn’s story that he was threatened with
a gun, saying no weapon was found on the teen and witnesses never
described Davis making threats.



Imagine what might have happened if the murdered kid had been armed with
a soft drink and a bag of candy!
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