Responding officers testified Thursday about their arrival to 63rd Street and Bell Avenue to find Ella French fatally wounded and her partner, Carlos Yanez Jr., clinging to life.
A Chicago Fire Department paramedic unfurals a flag at a memorial for Chicago police Officer Ella French in the 6300 block of South Bell Avenue, Aug. 10, 2021. Officer Nicolas Morales heard a frenzied call over the radio, rushed to the scene and saw Ella French prone on the ground.
Morales and other responding officers testified Thursday about their arrival to 63rd Street and Bell Avenue to find French fatally wounded and Yanez clinging to life. As the trial for a man accused in their shooting moved to its fourth day, police officers told the jury about their frantic drives to the University of Chicago Medical Center to get help for French and Yanez.
Jurors also viewed photographs of the sprawling crime scene, from the area around 63rd and Bell where the shooting happened to the nearby residential area where police arrested Morgan and his brother. According to prosecutors, French, Yanez and Blas pulled over an SUV occupied by Emonte Morgan, his brother Eric and a woman for expired plates. Eric Morgan handed over the keys when asked, prosecutors have alleged, but Emonte Morgan refused to put down a drink and a cellphone he was holding, leading to a scuffle, prosecutors said.
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