Witnesses for the prosecution of Jamell Demons, the rapper known professionally as YNW Melly, have placed the defendant in the car where his friends, Christopher Thomas and Anthony Williams, met their demise.
Surveillance video puts Demons in the back seat behind the driver. Testimony from the medical examiner’s office establishes that the bullets that killed the victims, seated in the front and rear passenger seats, came from their left, at close range. Other forensic evidence shows the gun was fired at close range.
Whether that is enough to convict Demons of murdering Thomas and Williams will remain up to the jury, but prosecutors are not done presenting evidence in a case that is expected to last another month.
