Jury Deliberating Case Of Anti-Gang Activist Shooting
DENVER (CBS4)- A jury will resume deliberations on Thursday in the trial of a former gang member turned anti-gang activist.
Terrance Roberts is accused in a 2013 shooting at a peace rally he helped organize. He faces attempted murder and weapons charges.
Roberts claims he shot 22-year-old Hasan Jones in self defense after jones pulled a knife on him. The shooting happened two years ago outside the Boys and Girls Club at 33rd Avenue and Holly Street.
"I was defending my life on my own property so I hope the people on my jury believe my story that I could have been afraid for my life and they would have been afraid as well," Roberts told CBS4's Rick Sallinger outside court on Wednesday.
In closing arguments prosecutors argued that the man Roberts shot was unarmed and that he shot him again when he was already down and that Roberts planted a knife on him after the shooting.
"Terrance Roberts shot him in the neck and in the heart, you do not shoot someone in either of those places without intending for them to die," said the attorney in court.
Jones remains paralyzed from his injuries.