LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ A murder trial has begun for an Arkansas man accused
of firing his gun into another driver’s car and killing a 3-year-old boy who was
in the back seat.
Gary Eugene Holmes is charged with first-degree murder in the December 2016
death of Acen King. The boy’s grandmother says she was stopped at a stop sign
when Holmes honked his horn, got out of his car and fired into her car.
According to a police affidavit, a woman who was in Holmes’ car told
investigators he was angry because he thought the car behind him was
tailing him too closely.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports Holmes’ attorney, Ron Davis, told
the Little Rock jury on Tuesday Holmes’ gun went off inadvertently, and he didn’t intend to fire it.
Deputy prosecutor Tracye Mosley told jurors the shooting wasn’t an accident.
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