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Deborah Cole watched as her 22-year-old son got shot in a Clairton (Pittsburgh) alleyway the night of Dec. 29, 2015.
Isaac Cole had been walking back to the Chevy Impala he’d been in with his mom, brother and girlfriend, when Mrs. Cole saw a man walk up behind him.
At first, she didn’t think anything of it. Then she saw the man reach toward his waistband and pull something out.
“Pow! Pow! Pow!,” Ms. Cole said she heard, accompanied by bright flashes of white-blue light.
“It was ‘til all of the bullets of the gun were gone,” she testified Thursday. “Even after the light was gone, he was still clicking the gun.”
Mrs. Cole was referring to John Sanders, 21, of Clairton, who is charged with criminal homicide. His trial before Common Pleas Judge Edward J. Borkowski began Tuesday.
According to Mrs. Cole, her son was able to get back in the car after he was shot, sitting first in the front passenger seat while his girlfriend drove to Jefferson Regional Medical Center. Then, his mother testified, he climbed into the back seat.
At first, Mrs. Cole, a nurse, said she didn’t see any blood on her son, but he said he believed he’d been hit in his arms -—that they were burning.
“He was telling me who shot him,” she said. “’That was Little John. He shot me in the arms,’” her son recounted.
They had just seen Mr. Sanders a few minutes earlier at a nearby gas station, Mrs. Cole said. He had been riding a motorized bike.
As they drove, Mr. Cole’s girlfriend was hysterical. Even as he lay in the back seat wounded, he was trying to comfort her, his mother said, telling her, “’Babe, don’t worry. Don’t cry. It’ll be all right,’” and wiping her tears.
“It was strange. He was like at peace,” his mother said.
Her son died about 30 minutes after they arrived at the hospital. He had been shot six times.
Immediately at the hospital, Mrs. Cole said, she told police that it was Mr. Sanders who was the shooter.
But on cross-examination, defense attorney William Difenderfer asked why Mrs. Cole kept repeating that night, “They shot him, they shot him,” implying there could have been more than one attacker.
Mrs. Cole could not answer. But assistant district attorney Chris Stone then read for his witness many other statements she made that night in which she identified Mr. Sanders as the shooter. “Little John shot Isaac,” she said. “Little John was right there in front and just kept going, ‘pop,pop, pop.”
Source: post-gazette.com
Date Posted: Saturday, November 12th, 2016 , Total Page Views: 1409
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