Deputy Prosecutor Tara Villarreal said in opening arguments that Rahmere Dunn killed Perry, 21, while he was buying marijuana from Dunn. Afterward, Dunn tried to delete their Facebook messages leading up to the shooting.Defense lawyer Lonnie Randolph II disagreed, saying it was self-defense. Perry tried to enlist a cousin to rob Dunn, he said. Perry held a gun to his head in the car and Dunn had no choice but to shoot him.
Prosecutors played different segments of security footage. One part appeared to show Dunn jumping out of Perry’s white Honda Civic, running back to his Chrysler 300, then taking off.Earlier, LaDonna Reed, Perry’s mother, said she last talked to him about a week before the shooting, telling him he should “watch people” he hung around with. A family member told her there was a shooting and she helped the coroner’s office identify her son’s body.
The man, later identified as Dunn, wore a reflective vest when he got out of the 300 and jumped inside Perry’s car. Investigators traced Dunn’s car via local road license plate reader systems and obtained footage that his car — with unique features like black rims and a panoramic moon roof — was in the area around the time of Perry’s murder, documents allege.
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