By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A jury has acquitted a man charged with first-degree murder in the 2020 death of a man who was on a motorized dirt bike when he was chased down by a car and fatally shot.
Daquandre Perry, 22, was found not guilty Wednesday in the death of 20-year-old John Parks Jr., the Omaha World-Herald reported.
Police have said Parks and a friend were riding their dirt bikes on a city street on July 26, 2020, when a black sedan began chasing them and at one point crashed into Parks’ bike. Parks ditched the bike and began running, but a person in the sedan fired several shots, hitting Parks in the neck, police said. Parks managed to scale a fence, but died in a back yard.
Prosecutors argued that several videos showed Perry and another man get out the sedan at an apartment complex about 20 minutes after the shooting, and police found the car had front-end damage consistent with a crash with the dirt bike. Prosecutors also argued that DNA found in the car’s driver’s seat was Perry’s.
But Perry’s attorneys countered that police also found the DNA of three other people in the car and that police had found no murder weapon and or witnesses who could definitively identify the car or the people in it.