DECATUR - The prosecution wrapped up its case Monday in the murder trial of Brandon R. Shaw, including the showing of a police video in which Shaw admitted shooting at Marcelle J. Brown.

Assistant Public Defender Randy Baker also presented much of his case, based largely on self-defense.

Shaw, 26, charged with shooting Brown, 28, on June 30, 2008, is scheduled to testify today, shortly after the trial resumes at 9 a.m. The jury could begin to deliberate on the case later today.

In the video, Decatur Police detective Troy Kretsinger interrogates Shaw in a room at the Law Enforcement Center one week after the incident. Shaw, handcuffed during the questioning, tells the story of his confrontation with Brown, which escalated quickly into a shooting.

After Shaw informed Brown's girlfriend that Brown had been sleeping with Shaw's girl, Shaw went to the home of his brother, Terence Shaw, in the 1300 block of East Main Street. While on the porch, Brown drove up and began insulting him.

Shaw said Terence handed him a gun through a window and advised, "Pop him."

"I started shooting, bam, bam, bam," Brandon Shaw said on the tape. Shaw said he was shooting at the ground, trying to scare him away, but Brown was not backing away.

"I'm shooting this gun, and this (expletive)'s just standing there," Shaw said.

Shaw said he did not know if he hit him, and when Brown ran away, he thought he might be returning to his car to retrieve a gun.

A defense witness, Thomas Lilly, who lived just north of the shooting scene, testified that he saw Brown throw a handgun into the bushes shortly before he died. He later saw an officer pick up the gun with a pen and put it into his vehicle's trunk.

Lilly testified that when he later told police there were two guns recovered at the scene, he was told by police to write in a statement that there was only one gun.

"The police told me what to write," Lilly said. "I wrote down what I was told by the police."

Lilly, who called 911 when he first heard gunshots, said police arrived within about five minutes, but an ambulance which arrived on the scene was kept away from the victim, waiting instead in a nearby church parking lot. Brown bled to death from a severed femoral artery. Lilly said he administered last rites "by the grace of God," although he was not a minister.

Baker presented three witnesses who testified that Brown had threatened to shoot Shaw, and Shaw was aware of those threats.

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