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>> Reporter: FROM THE WITNESS
STAND, 47-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL DUNN
GAVE A SIMPLE REASON FOR FIRING
NINE SHOTS INTO AN SUV.
>> I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO BE
KILLED>> Reporter: HE SAID HE
PULLED INTO A GAS STATION,
PARKING NEXT TO A RED DODGE DUR
RANGO PLAYING MUSIC SO LOUD HIS
VEHICLE WAS RATTLING.
>> MY EARDRUMS WERE VIBRATING.
>> Reporter: WHILE HIS FIANCE
WAS IN THE STORE, HE SAID HE
SPOKE TO THE TEENS.
>> I SAID CAN YOU TURN THAT
DOWN, PLEASE?
THEY TURNED IT OFF.
>> AT THAT POINT, WHAT DID YOU
THEN SAY?
>> I SAID THANK YOU.
>> Reporter: MOMENTS LATER, HE
SAID THE VOLUME WAS BACK UP AND
JORDAN DAVIS IN THE BACK SEAT
WAS USING RACIALLY INFUSED
PROFANITY THAT GREW INCREASINGLY
THEORY.
>> I HEAR, I SHOULD KILL THAT
MOTHER [ BLEEP ].
AND I'M FLABBERGASTED.
I MUST NOT BE HEARING THIS
RIGHT.
>> Reporter: DUNN SAYS HE TRIED
TO DEESCALATE THE SITUATION,
ASKING ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?
THAT'S WHEN HE SAYS DAVIS
REACHED FOR SOMETHING.
>> HE REACHED FORWARD AND
SLAMMED IT AGAINST THE DOOR.
I SAW STICKING ABOVE LIKE THE
WINDOW SIL ABOUT FOUR INCHES OF
A BARREL.
>> Reporter: FROM THEN ON HE
DESCRIBED AN ESCALATING SERIES
OF THREATS AND ACTIONS BY THE
17-YEAR-OLD.
>> NOW THE DOOR OPENS AND THIS
YOUNG MAN GETS OUT AND AS HIS
HEAD CLEARS THE WINDOW FRAME, HE
SAYS THIS [ BLEEP ] IS GOING
DOWN NOW.
THIS IS THE POINT WHERE MY DEATH
IS IMMINENT.
>> Reporter: DUNN SAYS HE
RETRIEVED HIS GUN FROM THE GLOVE
BOX AND FIRED NINE SHOTS INTO
THE SUV, EVEN STEPPING OUT OF
HIS OWN CAR TO CONTINUE SHOOTING
AS THE SUV DROVE OFF.
>> I DIDN'T AIM, I POINTED.
>> Reporter: HE SAID HE WAS
AFRAID THE SUV WOULD RETURN.
HE THEN DROVE TO THE HOTEL NEVER
CALLING POLICE.
POLICE SAY NO ONE WAS FOUND.
ON CROSS-EXAMINATION, HE NEVER
TOLD HIS FIANCE THE TEENS HAD A
GUN.
DUNN MAINTAINS HE DID.
>> YOU NEVER TOLD THE LOVE OF
YOUR LIFE THAT THOSE BOYS HAD A
GUN.
>> YOU WEREN'T THERE.
>> Reporter: IT WAS THE START OF
A CONTENTIOUS BACK AND FORTH.
GUY SAID THE TWO WEEKS VERY
PARKED SO CLOSE IT WOULD HAVE
BEEN IMPOSSIBLE FOR A RAGING
JORDAN TO GET OUT AS DUNN SAID
HE DID.
HE THEN SAID SELF-DEFENSE WAS
NOT THE REAL MOTIVE.
>> JORDAN DAVIS WAS NEVER A
THREAT TO YOU, WAS HE, MR. ZMUN
>> ABSOLUTELY HE WAS.
>> Reporter: HE SAID THE
FOLLOWING DAY HE DID REPORT THE
INCIDENT, BUT THE PROSECUTION
RECALLED DUNN'S FIANCE WHO
CONFIRMED DUNN MADE NO CALL.
THEN SHE DAMAGED HIS TESTIMONY
EVEN MORE WHEN ASKED IF DUNN
EVER TOLD HER THE TEENS WERE
ARMED, SOMETHING DUNN SWORE HE
DID --
>> DID THE DEFENDANT EVER TELL
YOU HE SAW A GUN IN THAT RED
SUV?
>> NO.
>> DID THE DEFENDANT EVER TELL
YOU HE SAW A WEAPON OF ANY KIND
IN THAT SUV?
>> NO.
>> THERE WAS NO MENTION OF A
SHOTGUN?
>> NO.
>> THERE WAS NO MENTION OF A
BARREL?
>> NO.
>> THERE WAS NO MENTION OF A LED