DETROIT – Surveillance camera footage played in court Thursday captured how a Detroit homicide developed from start to finish at a gas station.
Green Light cameras captured 34-year-old Ricardo Williams arguing with 32-year-old Desmond Nelson and eventually Nelson being shot dead. The incident happened July 23 at a gas station on West McNichols Road in Detroit.
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Video played inside 36th District Court Judge Kenneth King’s Court Room on Thursday, Sept. 7 showed how the dispute started and how many times deadly decisions were made instead of de-escalating intense situations.
“There is no more clear definition of first-degree premeditated I have ever seen,” King said of the footage.
In the middle of the argument, a woman in yellow -- known as Blossom -- is seen exiting a car, getting a gun from the trunk and giving it to Williams.
Williams had told Detroit police that he never had a gun and that the woman -- who he only knows as Blossom -- was there to hand him a gun.
Blossom will also be charged in Nelson’s death.
