Testimony is underway in the penalty phase of the Jason Banegas murder case.

The 22-year-old pleaded guilty in October to shooting and killing Hollywood police officer Yandy Chirino in 2021.

Now, a jury will decide whether Banegas spends life in prison or should be sentenced to death.

Jurors see chilling surveillance footage

On Tuesday, the jury saw surveillance video capturing the desperate seconds in real time as a severely wounded Officer Chirino was pulled from a cruiser and rushed into Memorial Regional Hospital.

"I saw they were tussling. Then I saw the barrel of a gun," Detective Manuel Rodriguez-Blevins, the first to testify, described what he saw the night Officer Chirino was killed.

Officer was responding to car break-ins

Chirino was responding to a report of someo

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