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The Case of Christopher Coleman

By Steve Hall

Mike Tolson reports, "New issue emerges in murder case," in today's Houston Chronicle.Elsy ?Daisy? Prado was the sole survivor of a nighttime assault that claimed the lives of her brother, boyfriend and 3-year-old son in north Houston. Wounded and scared, the native of Colombia had trouble in the following days recalling the shooter from the three men responsible for the ambush.Prado would identify Christopher Coleman, a 27-year-old Army veteran, as the gunman, and her testimony provided the key evidence that led a jury to convict him of capital murder and sentence him to die. That she had originally told authorities the four were simply lost on the night they were attacked in December 1995, when in fact they were parties to a drug deal gone wrong, did not sufficiently undermine her claim that Coleman had been the one to riddle their Toyota Paseo with bullets...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 21, 2009 (boomark / email).