Crime & Safety

More Witnesses and Evidence Presented in Mario McNeill's Trial

The jury saw video footage, date and time stamped from the Sleepy Hollow mobile home park from November 9, 2009.

Thursday morning in courtroom 4A evidence continued as witnesses and jurors viewed photographs and video footage.

Jurors watched security tape footage from the Sleepy Hollow mobile home park that showed the suspect going into the trailer 1116A, belonging to Brenda Davis, where 5-year-old Shaniya Davis had stayed with her mother before she was reporting missing.

The large projector screen where footage was displayed was not facing towards the spectators in courtroom 4A, only able to viewed by the jurors and the legal teams.

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On the early morning video footage from November 9, 2009 prosecutor Robby Hicks paused the screen shots and asked witness Barbara Davenport if she saw the defendant in the selected track. She replied, "yes".

At the time Davenport served at as the apartment manager for the trailer park and knew all of the residents as stated in her testimony on the stand.

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"I see someone walking from the trailer toward the car," stated Davenport as she watched the footage. "It looks like they are walking down the hill now."

Photographs were also presented on the screen as evidence showing the highlighted areas on the video where the person in question could be seen walking down the hill.

"Pay special attention right here at 5:26a.m." said Hicks as he showed another video selection from the security camera's tapes showing someone walking toward a car.

"Soemone's walking around the back side of the car, I can't tell, but it looks like they may have gotten into the car," said Davenport.

The Honorable Judge Ammons dismissed the juror panel for a break at 11:31a.m. for a 20 minute recess.

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