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Jul 2, 2008 3:34 pm US/Eastern
Judge Hears Taped Confession In Deli Clerk's Death
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Surveillance video played in court shows the robber entering the A&E Deli in Mount Oliver last August.
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A judge heard a taped confession today in the non-jury trial of a teenager accused of robbing and killing a deli clerk.
Prosecutors say 16-year-old Eric Hancock, of North Carolina, killed Jamal Mouzaffar.
Surveillance video played in court shows the robber entering the A&E Deli in Mount Oliver last August.
The video shows that the robber demands money and then forces Mouzaffar to sit on the floor. After handing over the cash, the robber shoots him in the chest. He then rummages through the store, steals cigarettes and leaves roughly five minutes later.
The following is the verbatim of Eric Hancock's taped statement to police following his arrest: "A week before the robbery happened, me and my cousin was sitting down talking. He was telling me how he needed money for his lawyer fee cause he had to go to court coming up in September. So we decided to rob a store. He wanted to do a store by a McDonald's, but I wanted to do the A&E cause it was closer. When he gave me the signal, I went in, hopped over the counter and told him to put his hands up. He put his hands up, I told him to open the cash register. He opened it. I told him to move back and he did. And then, I took the money out of the cash register, and then I asked him, 'Where is the safe at?' He had his hands out towards me like, 'No, what safe? Don't shoot me.' And then, I saw the safe, and then I shot him and I grabbed the safe and picked it up."
KDKA's Harold Hayes reports that Hancock has now taken the stand in his own defense as the trial continues.
Mouzaffar was originally from Syria. He was here on a medical visa, awaiting a prosthetic leg.
Judge Jeffrey Manning says he expects the trial to wrap up later today or sometime tomorrow.
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