K Street Shooting Trial: Reluctant Witnesses Testify

0:00Day 3 of the Kay Street shooting trial, kicked off in Sacramento, with surviving defendants Matoola Payton and Dandray Martin facing murder and weapons, charges from that deadly April 3, 2022 shootout. It was the worst mass shooting in the city's history, claiming six lives and wounding 12 others in what cops call a gang clash. Prosecutors painted it as a rival gang standoff during opening statements, flashing photos in video to show how three innocent women got caught in, the crossfire. Defense lawyers pushed back hard, saying it wasn't gang-related, just friends hanging out until Sergio Harris, one of the dead gunmen, sparked the violence. Witnesses on the stand Wednesday were straight up reluctant, none of them wanting to testify or finger anyone in the tense crowd near 10th and K, streets. One described grabbing her family and bolting for a parking garage as shots rang out, while another felt a bullet graze her back and still carries the, fragment. The victims hit hardest, were 21-year-old John Taya Alexander, 57-year-old Melinda Davis,

1:04and 21-year-old Yamil, Martinez-Andrade civilians with no ties to the fight. California law doesn't count the other three fatalities as victims since they joined the shootout. Trial rolls on today with more testimony, including cross-exam of the last witness tomorrow, as everyone waits to see if these reluctant accounts shift the case. That wraps California news today, brought to you with AI.