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On Thu, 16 May 2024 01:28:22 -0000 (UTC)
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> 
> >. . .   
> 
> >https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/14/did-a-chicago-police-officer-kill-his-girlfriend-in-self-defense-a-jury-will-decide/
> > 
> 
> Did a Chicago police officer kill his girlfriend in self-defense? A
> jury will decide.                
> 
> By Madeline Buckley
> Chicago Tribune
> PUBLISHED: May 14, 2024 at 5:19 p.m.
> UPDATED: May 14, 2024 at 5:37 p.m.        
> 
> Days before she was killed, Andris Wofford found a gun nestled among
> clothes in her laundry basket, prosecutors said, and then made a
> prophetic comment to a friend.
> 
> "If anything happens to me," prosecutors said she told her friend
> shortly before her death in December 2021, "Pierre will have done it."
> 
> She was referring to Pierre Tyler, the father of her 9-month-old
> daughter and then a Chicago police officer, according to prosecutors,
> who said her prediction would soon come to pass.
> 
> After an argument over another woman, Tyler fired a shot that killed
> the 29-year-old mother in her apartment in the 2100 block of North
> Nashville Avenue in the Northwest Side's Galewood neighborhood,
> according to police and prosecutors.
> 
> But Tyler, 32, standing trial on murder charges, is arguing that the  
> shooting was in self-defense. He plans to take the stand later this
> week, his attorney said, a relatively rare choice because of the risk
> of going up against prosecutors for questions under oath.
> 
> His attorney, Tim Grace, argued that Wofford was shot after she
> pointed a weapon at the off-duty cop in a jealous rage. Prosecutors
> painted a different picture, telling jurors that Tyler fatally
> attacked Wofford -- as she pressed him about his relationship with
> another woman -- before he launched a calculated cover-up.
> 
> The jurors, who were sworn in Tuesday, will decide which version they
> believe. Family and friends gathered in a courtroom at the Leighton
> Criminal Court Building, at times tearfully stepping outside when
> crime scene photos and videos were on display. The trial is expected
> to last until Friday.
> 
> As far as Tyler's status with the department, a Chicago police
> spokeswoman Tuesday said he was "inactive" but did not have further 
> information. He has been held without bond since his arrest and his 
> name does not appear on a current list of city employees.
> 
> "Andris was a 29-year-old mother of two daughters. ... She was a    
> daughter to Carl and Lisa," Assistant State's Attorney Michelle Papa
> began in her opening arguments. "She had family and friends that cared
> about her."
> 
> It was early December, and Andris, a social worker, was in the midst
> of preparing for the Christmas season, Papa said, taking out the
> stockings and putting up the Christmas tree. She also made a
> consequential decision to confront Tyler about his marital status,
> Papa said.      
> 
> "She believed he had been married to another woman," she said. "That
> decision is what cost her her life."
> 
> Grace said Tyler wasn't married, but Andris had misunderstood
> something she'd read in a court filing.
> 
> Tyler came to Wofford's apartment to talk while the children were with
> relatives, Papa said, but the two began arguing. As the night grew 
> later, Papa said, Wofford gathered her stuff and got ready to leave,
> to pick up her daughters.
> 
> "She opened the door ... and the defendant shot her one time in
> face," Papa said. "And then he left her to die in a pool of blood in
> the front entryway of her apartment."
> 
> Tyler quickly started covering his tracks, including texting her
> mother that he couldn't get in touch with her, Papa said.
> 
> A detective who interviewed Tyler testified Tuesday that Tyler told
> him he was meeting with a confidential informant alone during the
> shooting.
> 
> During his opening statement, Grace argued that Wofford became enraged
> when she thought she learned Tyler was married. He said she texted
> friends, telling them she was "about to go TF off." He was about to
> leave, Grace said, when Wofford pointed a gun at him.               
> 
> "Pierre does what any human being would do," Grace said. "He defends
> himself."
> 
> Afterward, Grace said, Tyler "made mistakes" because he felt no one
> would believe that Wofford's killing was in self-defense.             
> 
> "He's a police officer, military veteran. He's a man, she's a woman.
> Nobody is going to believe him," Grace said. "These mistakes he made
> doesn't make him a murderer, it makes him a scared, panicked person,
> a human being."
> 
> Later in the week, Grace said Tyler would take the stand to explain
> what happened, going up against questions from "experienced         
> prosecutors."
> 
> "In the end, you're going to see a broken man take that stand," Grace
> said.

If nothing else, this case is a strong argument for the schools
maximizing reading comprehension in every student. If she had better
understood the document she read, she might very well still be alive
today. 

-- 
Rhino