On Monday, jurors were shown video of Nassau County Deputy Josh Moyers's murder, and heard testimonies. Patrick McDowell pleaded guilty to his murder.
8:29 AM EDT April 16, 2024Editor's note: Watch the livestream of day 2 of the sentencing phase in the above video player or YouTube video below.shooting and killing a Nassau County Sheriff's deputyPatrick McDowell pleaded guilty last year to murdering Nassau County Sheriff's Deputy Josh Moyers, 29, during a 2021 traffic stop.
McDowell was captured on Sept. 28, 2021, after he was found hiding in a concession area of a school's athletic field. The video was shown during testimony from the first deputy on the scene the night of the murder, Nassau County Sheriff's Deputy David Barnes. Barnes was only nine months into his first policing job that September, and testified Moyers was the person who introduced him to the field of work and was the first police ride-along he went on before entering the police academy.
On Monday, jurors also heard from the woman who was in McDowell's van, which prosecutors say was stolen when McDowell shot Moyers. Noelle Gale testified she and McDowell smoked meth and were planning to drive to the Florida-Georgia line to shoot guns. She said she and McDowell smoked meth in a gas station parking lot and when they drove off, McDowell said there had been a police officer there.
“I guess out of shock," Gale said."He grabbed my arm. I didn’t know where I was, in the middle of nowhere.”
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