Powerful and emotional testimony on Tuesday marked the start of the trial of a man accused of killing his co-worker and injuring another at a Baldwin truck stop in 2019 and a subsequent violent confrontation on Interstate 10.

Prosecutors told jurors that Leroy Edwards ambushed two co-workers at the Pilot truck stop, fatally shooting Todd Phillips and wounding Joseph Parcell, then stole the company’s 18-wheeler and led officers on a chase onto I-10. Authorities say officers exchanged gunfire with Edwards and took him into custody.

Parcell testified that he did not hear the initial shots above the morning noise. When he stepped out of a vehicle, he said, he saw Phillips on the ground and Edwards pointing a gun at him. Parcell said the gunfire “kind of knocked the wind out of me” and that E

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