“Are you ever going to forget his face?”
Paralyzed NOPD officer identifies his attacker in court
by Gwen Filosa, The Times-Picayune
Wednesday March 12, 2008, 12:11 PM
From the wheelchair he received after getting shot and paralyzed in May 2006, New Orleans Police Officer Andres Gonzalez today told a jury Eddie Harrison III was the man who shot him repeatedly in the face and neck in Algiers.
Harrison, 25, appeared in court today wearing a white dress shirt and tie, his hair in the short twists that Gonzalez said he recalled from the afternoon when he was last able to walk or run.
“Are you ever going to forget his face?” Assistant District Attorney Greg Thompson asked Gonzalez, dressed in his NOPD uniform for Harrison’s trial at Orleans Parish Criminal District Court.
“Never,” replied Gonzalez, who at age 25 was nearly killed after pursuing a passenger who fled a car during a police stop in Algiers Point on May 22, 2006.
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