Jurors hear testimony from dead witness
Taped statement played in triple-murder trial
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Posted: 06/25/2010
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - More than a year after a Louisville woman who had agreed to testify in a murder trial was shot to death, jurors were able to hear her testimony.
Jurors in the triple-murder trial of Lloyd Hammond on Thursday heard a taped police statement from Troya Sheckles, who was fatally shot in a park on March 23, 2009.
In the statement, Sheckles tells police Hammond fatally shot William Sawyers on June 3, 2006.
Jurors were not told that Sheckles had been killed, just that she was unable to testify.
Hammond is facing the death penalty in the murders of Sawyers and Terell Cherry, both 21, and Kerry Williams, 26. Sawyers and Cherry were killed the same day, and Williams was shot in the head two weeks later.
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Information from: The Courier-Journal, http://www.courier-journal.com
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