Jurors on Wednesday viewed the first person perspective of a deadly shooting, the body camera from a former Dallas police officer accused of repeatedly shooting into a car, killing a 21-year-old woman.
Christopher Hess is charged with aggravated assault by a public servant.
The video from Hess was one of two additional angles presented to the jury of eleven women and one man, after viewing video from three different officers a day earlier.
On the opening day of trial Tuesday, prosecutors and defense attorneys presented differing opinions of whether Christopher Hess was justified and reasonable when he opened fire on a vehicle at an apartment complex parking lot.
Hess, 42, is charged with aggravated assault by a public servant in the shooting of Genevive Dawes. She died after the shooting.
Hess was one of the officers who responded to a suspicious person call Jan. 18, 2017, at an apartment complex in the 4700 block of Eastside Avenue in East Dallas where a black Dodge Journey was parked.
On Wednesday, jurors heard from the resident who placed the 911 call about the suspicious vehicle.
Joe Samples said he had seen the small SUV parked the day before with a man and woman sleeping inside. He called 911 when the vehicle returned a second time.
"I felt very uneasy about it," Samples said.
Samples, who said he helps with crime watch at the complex, said he stayed outside as officers arrived and watched their repeated attempts to get the people inside the vehicle to comply.
Dawes and Virgilio Rosales were asleep in the car, which had been reported stolen, court records show. Dawes' family said in court filings that the woman had bought it a month before not knowing it had been stolen.
The pair woke up when officers shined lights into the car.
Videos played Tuesday for jurors show Hess pull his squad car forward after Dawes starts reversing.
Then Dawes pulls the vehicle forward, hitting a fence before reversing again.
Body camera video from Hess's partner, officer Jason Kimpel, showed him behind the SUV up until just a seconds before the shooting.
Kimpel is heard on his own body camera video describing to another officer after the shooting what he saw.
"They rammed the car then they tried to run through the fence then they backed up," Kimpel said. "I moved over, then they tried to back it up again and the shot. I fired one round, Hess fired a couple.”
Prosecutor George Lewis said Hess fired "two distinct volleys of shots", 12 in total, at the vehicle. He said the officer was "totally unreasonable" and "totally unjustified."
Defense attorney Messina Madson said Dawes was using the vehicle to try to knock down the fence and escape arrest. She said the woman was "armed, aggressive and unwilling to be arrested."
Officer Zach Hopkins testified Tuesday that he believed Dawes knew there were officers trying to stop her when she started reversing.
"We were being extremely loud. There's no way they didn't know we were there," Gibson said.