Jury Weighs Key Evidence in Federal Wrongful-Death Case of Unarmed Man Shot by Baldwin County Deputy
MOBILE, Ala. — A federal jury began deliberations Thursday in a wrongful-death civil trial surrounding the fatal shooting of Jonathan Victor by Baldwin County sheriff’s deputy Cpl. Matthew Hunady. The trial stems from a May 2017 incident on Interstate 10, where Hunady shot Victor during a tense standoff after a single-vehicle accident. The central question before jurors is whether Hunady’s actions constituted excessive force. Both sides acknowledged key details from dashcam and bodycam footage but clashed on their interpretations. During closing arguments, plaintiff’s lawyer Jack Samuel Tenenbaum argued that Victor, a Louisiana resident, should not … Read more