Man accused of injuring mother, baby in shooting appears in court
JACKSON Tenn.,- One of the men Jackson Police believe shot into a home on East End St. earlier this month appeared in court Thursday afternoon. Damian McFarland is charged with six counts of attempted first degree murder after four people, including a mother and 4-month-old baby, were hurt. McFarland gave a written statement to police saying he was at home during the time of the shooting June 12. Investigators played a phone call made from McFarland in jail to his girlfriend that they said incriminates him. “I should have kept my black a** at the crib man,” McFarland said in the phone call. Investigators said earlier the day of the shooting, McFarland and his girlfriend got into a verbal argument with several men, including Christopher Minor. Minor testified he saw McFarland pull the trigger that night. “When the first shots went out that’s when I got hit in the head. The door flew open, and when the door flew open that’s when I saw ‘Dam,” Minor said. Minor said he also saw other shadows of shooters. Minor’s girlfriend and her baby were also injured. “When she got shot she tried to grab the baby, and when she did that, that’s when the baby got shot,” Minor testified. McFarland’s attorney argued that during the jail phone call, McFarland could have been referring to something earlier in the day and not the shooting. After Minor and a Jackson police investigator’s testimony, Judge Blake Anderson bound McFarland’s case over to the grand jury.
