Often DNA evidence helps prove a prosecutor's case but not in the Capital Murder trial for Antonio Armstrong Jr.
A DNA expert just left the witness stand, and although she testified for the prosecution, what she told jurors did not prove who murdered former NFL player Antonio Armstrong Sr. and his wife Dawn Armstrong.
Head says because kids and parents share DNA it’s hard to pinpoint or exclude any Armstrong family member as the one who left touch DNA on the gun, on the pen used to write the "I’ve been watching" note left beside the gun and the kitchen drawer where the pen and paper were retrieved. Antonio Sr. and Dawn Armstrong were shot to death in their Bellaire area home in 2016 when Antonio Junior was just 16 years old.
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