EVERETT — Snohomish County jurors this morning heard more from patrons who were at the Chuckwagon Inn the night Everett police officer Troy Meade shot and killed a drunken Stanwood man.
An Everett police detective also testified about how he obtained video footage from a nearby business. That footage showed Meade’s police car parked behind Niles Meservey’s Chevrolet Corvette.
Jurors were expected this afternoon to listen to recordings of the 911 calls that summoned police to the restaurant. They also likely will hear from an officer who was present for the shooting and is expected to testify that Mead’s gunfire was unnecessary.
Meservey, 51, was shot to death June 10 while sitting inside his car. Meade, 41, is accused of killing Meservey without any legal justification. He is charged with second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter. If convicted of murder, he faces up to 18 years in prison.
The 11-year veteran is expected to take the stand to “tell his side of the story,” his attorney David Allen told jurors Wednesday. Meade declined to give investigators a statement after the shooting.
He is expected to testify that he believed his life and the lives of others were in danger that night. He plans to tell jurors that he believed he was going to be struck by Meservey’s vehicle, Allen said. Meade twice used a stun gun on Meservey. The Stanwood man continued to ignore the officer’s commands.
A second officer who witnessed the shooting told investigators that he didn’t believe anyone was in imminent danger. Steven Klocker, a key witness for the prosecution, told detectives that Meade said something like “Time to end this; enough is enough,” before he fired his gun eight times into the back of Meservey’s vehicle. Klocker told investigators that he thought the officers had other options besides lethal force to subdue Meservey.
Allen on Wednesday told jurors that Klocker isn’t a credible witness. He accused the officer of changing and embellishing his story each time he talked to investigators and lawyers. Klocker could take the stand this afternoon.
The trial is expected continue into next week.
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