Jurors heard opening arguments Thursday in the trial of three former Georgia sheriff’s deputies charged with murder in the 2017 death of a Black man whom the deputies repeatedly shocked with a stun gun.
Eurie Martin, 58, died in 2017 in Deepstep, Georgia, after being stunned repeatedly by then-deputies Henry Lee Copeland, Michael Howell and Rhett Scott, all of whom are white.
Martin, who suffered from schizophrenia, had been the subject of a 911 call from a homeowner in the Washington County town while on a 30-mile (50-kilometer) walk to see relatives on a sweltering July day. Howell and Copeland ordered Martin to stop walking on the roadway, place his hands on his head, and lie down.
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