Photo Credit: Photo by @wycam1 via Twitter.
Unfortunately, Flagpole does not have the resources to send a writer to sit in a courtroom for eight hours a day for two months, but oh my God, as tragic and reprehensible as Jamie Hood’s crime spree was, this story is amazing.
Hood is accused of killing Kenneth Omari Wray and kidnapping Judon Brooks while searching for a drug dealer who’d cut him out of the game. While on the lam after Brooks escaped out of the trunk of a car, Hood shot Athens-Clarke County police officers Buddy Christian and Tony Howard, killing Christian (which he has admitted). Then he hid out for four days, took a family hostage and surrendered on live TV with seemingly every cop in the state surrounding the house.
Hood is currently on trial and serving as his own attorney, which is a comedy of errors in and of itself. It also means he’s cross-examining local police officers—including Howard, whom he shot through the cheek and who took the stand this morning.
Luckily, there’s a Jamie Hood hashtag on Twitter, and it’s the best thing on the Internet right now. (You can also watch a live stream.)
This is already amazing!! “The prosecution has spread ugly lies about me!” #JamieHood Lol pic.twitter.com/tgWu4aEnZT
— Pro-Democracy Esq. (@wycam1) June 25, 2015
The jurors are like lol #jamiehood pic.twitter.com/OShLmDSXYP
— MMc (@RieMcAz) June 25, 2015
I have officially died and gone to heaven. #JamieHood He is producing “evident.” Oh man, oh man, oh man. @wycam1
— Pencil of the Court (@CourtPencil) June 25, 2015
Slick Boyz?! Brooks be like…#JamieHood done lost his damn mind!” Lol pic.twitter.com/bsumrOYzpS
— Pro-Democracy Esq. (@wycam1) June 25, 2015
#JamieHood is interrupting testimony, playing with laptop, which played some Tynes , judge looking pissed
— Joe Johnson (@JoeJohnsonABH) June 29, 2015
If looks could kill. Officer Howard stares down #JamieHood as he identifies him in court as the man that shot him. pic.twitter.com/WaP1fBKrSZ
— Cathy (@courtchatter) June 29, 2015
This Judge is going to need some scotch every evening after trial #JamieHood
— Johary (@Joharyspark) June 29, 2015
Hood to Officer Howard: Why didn’t you write a report about this incident? Howard: I got shot, I was in the hospital. #JamieHood trial
— Valerie Hoff DeCarlo (@Valuesval) June 29, 2015
Oh my! #JamieHood goes into a high soprano voice to Officer Howard “Do you remember yelling at Matthew Hood…..?” And begins screaching
— Cathy (@courtchatter) June 29, 2015
#JamieHood is trying to compose himself. Getting worked up. Guard watches him closely. pic.twitter.com/X0knGtxU1b
— Cathy (@courtchatter) June 29, 2015
If you’re missing the #jamieHood trial you’re missing out
— Jen’s Trial Diaries (@TrialDiariesJ) June 29, 2015
I want to cover this so badly.
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