Opinion ID: 2524439
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Heading: mckenzie's testimony

Text: The police also brought McKenzie in for questioning and took her statement. She also testified at trial. According to McKenzie, she, McAbee, and Williams were hanging out in Williams' van on the day of the shooting. McKenzie, like McAbee, is a crack cocaine user and a street person. McKenzie testified that when they picked Manning up from his house, she noticed that he had a gun but she did not worry about it because everybody she knew carried a gun. Once they arrived at the liquor store, Williams got out of the van and went into the store to get a beer. McKenzie claimed that Manning got out of the van and passed Williams at the entrance of the liquor store. She testified that Williams exclaimed, The MF is doing it, as he got into the van. She claimed that it was then, and only then, that it dawned on her that this might be a robbery. McAbee, on the other hand, did not remember anyone saying anything specific during the time that Manning was in the store. In McKenzie's testimony, Manning returned to the van carrying a milk crate with a cash register drawer on top. McKenzie's testimony, however, differed from McAbee's testimony in that she could not recall Manning pointing a gun to her head, telling her to drive or he would blow her fucking head off. McKenzie claimed that while in the van Williams asked Manning if he hurt the woman in the liquor store and, after Manning said no, Williams asked him to swear to it. McKenzie claimed that Manning hesitated and then said that she was going to call the police. McKenzie dropped Manning off at his home. She took $10 from him and left with Williams and McAbee. Williams was not located for trial and did not testify.