Sep 8, 2008 8:00 pm US/Eastern
Testimony Begins In Homeless Beating Trial
On First Day Of Tesimony, Jurors Saw Surveillance Video Of One Of The Beatings
A Homeless Witness Took The Stand As Well
FT. LAUDERDALE (CBS4) ―
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FAU surveillance camera videotaped the beatings on Jan. 12th 2006 in Fort Lauderdale.
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Brian Hooks, 21, charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder
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45-year old Norris Gaynor died of his injuries after he was beaten with a baseball bat
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Raymond Perez was beaten in the garden of the Church By The Sea
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A Broward County jury began hearing the first testimony Monday in the murder case against two men involved in the beating death of a homeless man and the injuring of two others.
Thomas Daugherty, 19, and Brian Hooks, 21, are charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder for their roles in the Jan. 12, 2006, beatings of three men in Fort Lauderdale.
Monday morning, prosecutors played a videotape which captured the beating of 60-year old Jacques Pierre outside Florida Atlantic University. He and 52-year old Raymond Perez were both hospitalized with head injuries. Norris Gaynor, 45, died of his injuries after he was beaten with a baseball bat.
The video of Jacques Pierre's beating was followed by testimony from one of the first police officers on the scene.
Pierre took the stand as well.
"I was trying to take the baseball away from them; they were hitting me in my head," said Peirre.Prosecutors say Daugherty and Hooks were high on Xanax, vodka and marijuana when they went out to beat up homeless people but their lawyer says they had no desire to kill or cause serious harm.
Daugherty and Hooks could face life in prison if convicted.
A third suspect, William Ammons, 21, has already accepted a deal from prosecutors to testify against his former friends. He pled guilty in May to felony murder and aggravated assault and is awaiting sentencing.
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