By: Las Vegas Now Staff
Two teenagers accused of killing a Palo Verde student chose not to testify in their own preliminary hearing Friday. But the court did hear what those defendants told police about their role in the fatal shooting.
After a dozen eyewitnesses and three days of testimony, the state has finally rested in its effort to prove there is enough evidence to try 16-year-old Gerald Davison and 19-year-old Ezekiel Williams for murder with gang enhancement.
Christopher Privett, 15, an honor student and freshman football player at Palo Verde High School, was shot to death while walking home from school on Feb. 15.
Various witnesses inside the car named Davison as the shooter and Williams as the driver who sped away from the scene after the shooting.
Friday, a Metro homicide detective testified that Davison, in his voluntary statement to police, talked about having a verbal altercation with the group of kids just before the shooting and how Williams handed him the gun.
Other witnesses have testified that gang signs were flashed and gang terminology was exchanged between the two groups of kids just before the shooting.
Court has adjourned for the day. Closing arguments will be heard Monday afternoon before the judge decides whether these two teens will stand trial for murder.
Prosecutors are calling this a gang-related murder, yet, Chris Privett was not believed to be a member of a gang – but at least one of the kids he was walking with admitted to being part of gang.
Prosecutors have argued that the defendant are affiliated with at least one local gang.
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