PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WVEC) -- A 16-year-old boy is back in court Tuesday for his second day of trial after being charged in connection with shooting a Portsmouth police officer back in November.
Will Patterson Jr. faces several felony charges, including attempted capital murder. He pled not guilty to all of the charges and requested a trial by jury.
Prosecutors called several eyewitnesses to testify, including Officer Baaklini and the officers first to arrive on scene after the shooting.
When Baaklini took the stand, she said Patterson started shooting as she tried to handcuff him. Prosecutors then presented body camera footage to the jury of the encounter.
Baaklini added that the last words she thought she would say were "tell my mom I love her," as she was in the ambulance.
However, the defense questioned how Baaklini detained Patterson.
Once Baaklini spotted Patterson on his bike, she said she followed him in her car for several blocks, without telling him to stop. Then stopped her car. Patterson's bike hit the car, causing him to fall off the bike.
The defense asked if she was purposely trying to hit Patterson off his bike and asked why she didn't turn on her body camera until after she made contact with him.
On Nov. 6, Officer Angelina Baaklini was sitting in her patrol car in the 2500 block of Hickory Street when she spotted Patterson and recognized him as a runaway.
She attempted to detain him, but Patterson pulled a gun from his waistband and started shooting, according to prosecutors.
Patterson was 15 at the time of the shooting and attended I.C. Norcom High School.
Baaklini was shot five times and had to undergo two surgeries and a blood transfusion as a result. She was released from the hospital just a few weeks after, on Nov. 21.
Patterson faces the following charges:
- Attempted capital murder on law enforcement
- Four counts discharging a firearm in public resulting in bodily injury
- Malicious injury to law enforcement officer
- Two counts use of firearm
- Concealed weapon
- Underage possession of firearm
- Aggravated malicious wounding
- Use of a firearm in commission of aggravated malicious wounding
Patterson admitted at his arraignment that he was a part of the 300 Gang.
He faces other charges in connection with two different robberies that happened in Oct. 2017.
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