BATTLE CREEK (WKZO AM/FM) – Testimony in the first degree murder trial of James Hatfield has concluded in Calhoun County Circuit Court and the case could go to the jury later today.
Hatfield is charged with shooting and killing Kevin Pratcher outside a home on Cherry Street last October, during a drug deal.
One of the most telling witnesses called by the Prosecutor, Maurice Reed testified that he saw the whole thing. He claims that Hatfield and Pratcher had been arguing, that Hatfield got a 9-mm handgun out of his trunk, fired one shot into the ground, a second into the air and the third straight at Pratcher, who would die a week later from the wound.
The Defense didn’t call any witnesses.
Closing arguments and final instructions will come today and the jury will go to work.
