The Latest: Graphic photo of body shown at officer's trial

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Graphic photo of body shown at officer's trial

Updated 10:50 am, Wednesday, August 5, 2015



Police officer Randall Kerrick listens during his trial at the Mecklenburg County Courthouse in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015. Kerrick is facing voluntary manslaughter charges in the shooting death of Jonathan Ferrell. (Davie Hinshaw/The Charlotte Observer via AP, Pool)

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The latest on the trial of a white Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer charged with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed black man seeking help after a crash in September 2013 (all times local):

11:20 a.m.

Jurors in the manslaughter trial of a Charlotte police officer have been shown a graphic photo of the man he's accused of killing.

The bloody, frontal photo taken more than three hours after Jonathan Ferrell fell dead face-down in a ditch was passed around by jurors Wednesday as a homicide detective testified. Some only glanced briefly while others stared intently. Unlike other photos in the case, it was not shown to the public on an overhead screen.

Ferrell was shot as officer Randall Kerrick helped investigate a possible home invasion. Kerrick is charged with voluntary manslaughter.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/The-Latest-Graphic-photo-of-body-shown-at-6426380.php

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1. What must it be like to be a black parent of a 13 yr old boy, or 9 yrs old for that matter.

Knowing there is a very real possibility he will be killed by police, and it is your job to figure out how to explain to him how to protect himself.

Cant imagine.

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2. Believe it or not I have thought about this a great deal. I have two sons now in their 50s

and have often thought how I didn't have to concern myself with these things. My heart truly does go out to the parents, grandparents and the black community in general...