- The Defense - Page 133

Q: If you had the gun, why didn't you just hold Tommy prisoner and get them to call the law?....Why didn't you just say, help, call the police, and make Tommy stay there?

A: Huh?

Q: You had the gun.  Tommy's on his knees begging.  Why didn't you just say to those people over there, help, call the police, and you make Tommy stay there?

A: Those two people, them two people were walking and gone.  They were gone through the hallway and gone on the other side.

Q: But you had the gun.

A: I had the gun, yeah, and I took the gun and carried it to the law.  After he gave me the gun, I take it and carried it to the law.  I glad I take the gun when he gave it to me.  He could have killed me.  He would have went ahead and killed me.  He meant to kill me.

A few minutes later, Hadley pressed him on his behavior in the restaurant.

Q: Why didn't you tell the man at the Kentucky Fried Chicken that somebody tried to kill you?

A: What man?

Q: The man who you asked to use the telephone.

A: The only help he could give me is give me the police number.  If he give me the wrong number—he give me the wrong number to call.

Q: But you were safe.

A: Huh?

Q: But you were safe.

A: You say I was safe?

Q: Yes.

A: I couldn't say that.  I couldn't sit down and be easy and know that a man try to kill me and sit down at the Kentucky Fried Chicken.  I couldn't do that.

Q: But you were nervous.  Why didn't you say, call the police, call the police? A: I asked him to give me the police and let me call them.

Q: Why didn't you call him, hey, man, somebody tried to shoot me, call the police quick?

A: The man was working.  The man was working on his job.  I asked him a favor to give me the police number.  He gave me the number that he know.  I didn't get the police....

Q: You mean to tell me that chicken is more important than murder?

A: Huh?