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Murder Case Jurors Hear Evidence Against Detroit Model Skyy Mims

April 28, 2015, 2:36 PM by  Alan Stamm

A county prosecutor in northern Georgia began presenting evidence Monday against Skyy Mims, an aspiring model and rapper from Detroit who's accused of killing a 37-year-old gas station clerk.

Mims, 22, was arrested two days after the March 2014 stabbing and theft of at least $300 and 80 scratch-off lottery tickets.

Tyler Jett, covering the trial for the Chattanooga Times Free Press (video below), tweets updates Tuesday afternoon from court. Witnesses included Candace Patterson, Mims' cousin, who testified that a man named Kyle drove Mims to Georgia from Detroit in a stolen Kia Soul.

A county detective, Chris Gay, testified earlier Tuesday about store video footage being shown to jurors:    

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Skyy Mims waves to family members at a pretrial hearing.

Jett reports earlier on opening statements by each side:    

Whitfield County District Attorney Bert Poston said Mims stabbed the clerk twice . . . when the store was empty, then covered his face in duct tape, pinching his nose to cut off his ability to breathe.

But in her haste to leave the murder scene, Mims forgot to take her cell phone with her, and police later found it next to the body, Posten said. The phone was registered to Mims and pictures of Mims were on the phone, police say.

When an anonymous tip led Police to Mims, they found a dress and a black hoodie she wore that day, along with gloves, duct tape and a knife with the victim's blood, according to the district attorney.   

Defense lawyer Carla Marable of Detroit said in her opening statement that security camera footage doesn't show the killer's face and that another woman staying at the same Georgia house resembles Mims, the reporter writes. The defendant and Keisha Jones "could be identical twins," Marable is quoted as saying.

The women came from the same Detroit neighborhood to visit a friend near Atlanta, according to the defense scenario.

Marable maintained that Mims was "too high" on MDMA [ecstasy] to commit the crime, and was scared about an existing warrant out for her arrest on charges of property destruction.

Mims' mother, Ylet Noelle Patterson of Oak Park, and other family members are attending the trial, according to the journalist from Chattannooga, across the nearby Georgia-Tennessee border. 


Read more:  Chattanooga Times Free Press


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