The testimony begins in the trial of a woman accused of killing Bradenton’s man known as “Peace Walker”

Bradenton, fla. – The testimony began on Tuesday in the trial of a woman accused in a Crash the run over that killed a man from Bradenton known in the community as the “Peace Walker”.

Florida’s road patrol said Teresa Zeppi was behind the wheel of a Lincoln navigator in 2020 when she hit and killed Joseph Dalus, Mr., 82, and then stopped to clean the evidence of his front bumper.

Images of 2020 hit that killed Joseph Dalus, Mr.

Witnesses who took the stand on Tuesday included several FHP soldiers, a paramedic and Joseph Dralus, Jr., who led to the community, looking for the vehicle that hit his father.

What they are saying:

“(I) I walked around the house, sat in his room, (and) I thought about what had happened. After being at home, I don’t remember, not much, I didn’t want to spend there for so long. I decided to go and go find the vehicle,” said Dalus, Jr. “I thought, why not? I realize that I was in the northwest BradentónThat it is such a united community, a without exit, which means that there is a path to the northwest of Bradenton mostly and an exit. So yes, I decided to start driving through the northwest of Bradenton. ”

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The testimony of the victim’s son followed the opening statements, in which the State and the lawyers of Zeppi presented their arguments to the jurors.

Zeppi in court on Tuesday.

Prosecutors believe that Zeppi knew that he crashed into a person and chose to move on. They said they stopped at about 500 feet along the road, where the researchers said it was recorded in a home security video watching damage at the front of their SUV before leaving.

“He was hit with such force that his body was thrown into the entrance of his neighbor,” said Manatee County Prosecutor Michael Alonfo, adding that the investigators found the DNA of Dalus Mr. in the front of his vehicle. “The important thing about this case is what happened later. The driver did not stop, he did not call 911, and did not verify to see if the man who has just hit, Mr. Dalus, was fine.”

The defense lawyer Brett Mcintosh seemed to be sitting the foundations to argue that Zeppi did not realize that he hit Dralus, or perhaps a different vehicle did.

Photo: Joseph Dalus, Mr.

Mcintosh said that Zeppi had been in another earlier shirt earlier in the day and argued that it could be the reason he stopped to look at his bumper.

What follows?

The testimony will continue on Wednesday and the trial is expected to last most of the week.

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