A woman who was shot in the face in a NorthPark Center parking lot last spring testified Tuesday in the trial of the man accused of shooting her.
Mary Boyd was waiting in her car for her daughter when she was shot during an attempted carjacking in May.
"I will never forget that face," she said.
Demond Stuard, 28, is one of two men accused in the carjacking. Boyd spoke Tuesday before a jury on the first day of testimony in Stuard's trial.
"He was banging on the window really hard and trying to get the door open," Boyd said.
Boyd told the jury she tried to pull away from Stuard.
"He got so mad, and he just started shaking his head, 'No,' and then, he started showing me the gun," she said. "I just looked away, and I pushed the accelerator, and when I went to back up, that’s when he shot me."
Many family members and friends said it was the first time they had Boyd tell the incident from start to finish.
"It's hard," Christina Adcock said. "It’s hard looking over there and knowing this person could have killed our Mary."
Police charged Stuard and another man in the attack two months later.
Boyd saw their faces on the news and identified Stuard as the shooter.
But defense attorneys said it taints her testimony.
"The fact that someone was already arrested is suggestive to her that, yes, they got the right person," said Kenneth Weatherspoon, Stuard's lawyer.
Stuard's defense attorneys say their client was at the crime scene that night but did not shoot Boyd.
The jury also listened Tuesday to a tape of a five-hour interrogation in which Stuard repeatedly denied involvement in the carjacking.
Prosecutors said the jury will hear the end of the tape, on which Stuard changes his story, on Wednesday.
