Brett Hankison choked up several times on the stand as he described seeing his friend, Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, drop to the floor beside him and say ''I'm hit' or 'I'm down'
; he’s accused of wanton endangerment for firing 10 shots that hit a neighboring apartment building, allegedly endangering a pregnant woman, her partner, and their 5-year-old son.
When Mattingly was hit, Hankison said he immediately backed out of the apartment and started firing through a glass door toward the muzzle flashes. “I knew Sergeant Mattingly was down and I knew [the other officers] were trying to get to him and it appeared to me that they were being executed with this rifle,” he said as he fought back tears.He described radioing for help as Mattingly was dragged out of the apartment with a gunshot wound to the leg.
“He said, ‘My girlfriend. She shot you with her 9,’” Hankison said. When he asked where the girlfriend was, Walker replied, “She’s dead inside.”
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