Opinion ID: 3149633
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Heading: Shooting at the Mini Mart

Text: {¶ 4} The prosecution introduced evidence showing that during the early morning of April 10, 2005, Andre Piersoll and Yolanda Lyles drove to a Mini Mart. Lyles parked in front of the Mini Mart. According to Lyles, Dean approached the car and tried to sell them some pills while she had her money out. Following this conversation, Dean walked over to a two-door car, where a “tall white boy” was waiting,1 and left. {¶ 5} Piersoll knew Dean and testified that he first saw him inside the store. Piersoll got some snacks and returned to the car. According to Piersoll, Dean came to the car while he and Lyles were eating and talked to him about “some Valiums.” Piersoll said he did not want to buy them. {¶ 6} Lyles testified that she and Piersoll remained parked outside the Mini Mart for another five or ten minutes. While they were talking, Dean came around the corner of the Mini Mart and approached their car. Dean told Lyles, “Give me your money,” and started shooting at the car. Several bullets hit the windshield. Piersoll told Lyles that he had been shot. Lyles then left the parking lot and quickly drove to Mercy Hospital. Lyles noticed that until she was about a block from the hospital, the car with the shooter continued to follow them. 1 Dean was identified as the shorter of the two men, and Joshua Wade was identified as the taller. 2 January Term, 2015 {¶ 7} At the hospital, Piersoll was treated for a gunshot wound to the left arm and an abrasion to the right cheek. A spent .25-caliber bullet was retrieved from the sleeve of Piersoll’s jacket. Lyles had scratches on her face but did not require treatment. {¶ 8} The police recovered two .25-caliber shell casings outside the Mini Mart. Timothy Duerr, a forensic scientist assigned to the Firearms and Toolmarks Identification Section of the Miami Valley Crime Laboratory, determined that the two casings were fired from the same firearm. {¶ 9} On April 21, Detective Darwin Hicks prepared a photographic spread and showed it to Piersoll. Piersoll identified Dean as the person who shot him. {¶ 10} Crystal Kaboos, Dean’s girlfriend at the time, testified that he showed her a newspaper article about the Mini Mart shooting. He then said that he was the shooter. Dean told Kaboos that he “ran up on the car and just fired through the windshield at the person.”