Witness says Andrew Hammond was upset over $20 before gathering turned deadly

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The last moments of Brandon Munoz's beingness took halfway signifier successful tribunal connected Thursday arsenic a Fresno assemblage heard from a witnesser who saw Munoz get shot.

"He slumped implicit immediately," the witnesser said. "I felt, like, possibly helium mightiness inactive beryllium alive."

Action News cannot amusement oregon sanction the witness, but she told the assemblage she saw Andrew Hammond propulsion the trigger and occurrence the changeable that killed Munoz.

Prosecutors person charged Hammond with execution for Munoz's death. They person besides charged him with execution for the deaths of 2 different men: Fernando Gonzalez and Steven Rice.

The 3 each died successful abstracted shootings opening successful 2020 and ending successful the autumn of 2022.

Prosecutors person been moving done each shooting 1 by one, arguing that Hammond kills erstwhile helium is angry. On Thursday, the witnesser said determination was an statement earlier the deadly shot.

"Do you cognize what the taxable of the statement was?" the authoritative asked. "$20," the witnesser said. "The suspect brought it up."

The combat was truthful superior the witnesser said she astir offered her $20 to extremity the argument. But things escalated quickly.

She says Hammond and others were precocious connected meth -- and says Hammond was flaunting a semi-automatic weapon during overmuch of the gathering.

"He was intelligibly up excessively galore days connected meth," she said. "Making each kinds of question with his hands."

Thursday's grounds is the archetypal clip jurors person heard from an eyewitness to 1 of the shootings. But aft the authoritative finished with his questions, Hammond's defence portrayed Munoz arsenic a convulsive pack subordinate and the witnesser arsenic unreliable.

"How bully is your vision?" defence lawyer Richard Beshwate asked. "I person beauteous bully vision," the witnesser said.

"Do you retrieve being asked whether you could place idiosyncratic successful the courtroom? And that your reply was you had unspeakable vision, each you could spot was a blurry orange," the lawyer asked.

Beshwate says Hammond was acting successful self-defense during each 3 of the shootings.

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