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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts) Mon Oct 7, 2019, 12:34 PM Oct 2019

Slain witness would have testified in civil case against Dallas police

CBS NEWS
October 7, 2019, 8:01 AM

... Dallas police say they are investigating Friday night's shooting and, so far, do not have any suspects or a motive. The attorney for Botham Jean's family is also the attorney for Brown and says he should have been protected after he testified at Guyger's murder trial. The Jean family has filed a civil case against the city of Dallas for the murder of their son Botham. Merritt says Brown would have been one of their first witnesses ...

"To have a key witness, suddenly be killed is suspicious. Was this related to the trial? There is no clear indication," Merritt told CBS News' Omar Villafranca ...

... Merritt says Brown was scared someone was after him, after he was involved in a separate shooting incident in Dallas.

"He had been shot less than a year ago and someone standing near him was killed," Merritt said. "He was reluctant to testify in this case because he had been shot at and he thought some people might want to do harm to him" ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amber-guyger-trial-slain-witness-joshua-brown-would-have-testified-botham-jean-civil-case-against-dallas-police/

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Slain witness would have testified in civil case against Dallas police (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2019 OP

Mystery surrounds the killing of a witness struggle4progress Oct 2019 #1

Scary as hell empedocles Oct 2019 #2

obvious cilla4progress Oct 2019 #3

Probably, but looking like it's not the cops. cwydro Oct 2019 #6

He also would have testified in the murder trial of the guy who shot him last November jberryhill Oct 2019 #4

He was worried he'd be seen as a "snitch" for cooperating with the prosecution. cwydro Oct 2019 #5

struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)

1. Mystery surrounds the killing of a witness

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2019, 12:37 PM

Oct 2019

By Holly Yan, CNN
Updated 10:23 AM ET, Mon October 7, 2019

... About three months after Jean's death, Brown moved out of South Side Flats ... to the Atera Apartments in Dallas, about five miles from his former complex ...

He was shot near a strip club in Dallas in November 2018 ...

Brown and his family believed he was targeted in that shooting by someone he knew and had grown up with ...

The gunman in that shooting has not yet been arrested.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/07/us/joshua-brown-guyger-witness-what-we-know-dont-know/index.html

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

2. Scary as hell

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2019, 12:49 PM

Oct 2019

cilla4progress

(24,736 posts)

3. obvious

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2019, 12:55 PM

Oct 2019

hit job

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

6. Probably, but looking like it's not the cops.

Reply to cilla4progress (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 7, 2019, 01:49 PM

Oct 2019

See some of the other posts in this thread.

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

4. He also would have testified in the murder trial of the guy who shot him last November

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2019, 01:00 PM

Oct 2019

...and who, with his accomplice, is out on bail.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/12/13/man-arrested-in-fatal-shooting-outside-dallas-strip-club-after-thanksgiving/

While at one of the clubs, the group ran into Brown, who also went to the strip club on Walnut Ridge.

The second suspect waited for Brown outside the club to fight him. The men fought in the middle of the street. Afterward, Brown and his friends tried to leave, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

That's when Morris reached into a Chevrolet Avalanche, pulled out a gun and handed the weapon to the other suspect, witnesses told police, the warrant says.

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

5. He was worried he'd be seen as a "snitch" for cooperating with the prosecution.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2019, 01:44 PM

Oct 2019

He also was shot last year at a club. Way before this trial.

I don’t think this is going to turn out the way some DUers seem to believe it will.

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