"Nearly a decade after filmmaker Kevin Epps shot and killed his former brother-in-law, Marcus Polk, an eyewitness testified on Friday that Epps had drawn a gun on Polk the night before the shooting. Starr Gul, Polk's former wife, was the only other person in the room when Epps shot Polk on Oct. 24, 2016. Epps, an award-winning filmmaker and the executive editor of the San Francisco Bay View newspaper, is on trial for Polk's murder. Epps says he shot in self-defense."
"In a lengthy, often tearful testimony that lasted from Thursday afternoon through Friday and into Monday morning, Gul described the shooting she witnessed from the hallway in Epps' Glen Park home. She said she saw no reason for Polk to be killed. Friday's testimony was the first time that Gul publicly mentioned a gun being drawn the day before the shooting."
"The Sunday night before the shooting, Polk came to the house "banging" at the gate, she said, asking to be allowed in. Gul said that Epps became upset with Polk. "He went to the door, and then he got very angry and very worked up and aroused," Gul said, describing Epps. "I've never seen him in that demeanor. It was very cold, evil, angry. It was very scary.""
Kevin Epps shot and killed his former brother-in-law Marcus Polk on Oct. 24, 2016, and is now on trial for murder. Starr Gul, Polk's former wife, testified she was the only other person in the room and watched the shooting from a hallway. Gul said she saw no reason for Polk to be killed and that the previous night Epps had drawn a gun when Polk banged at the gate. Gul described Epps as angered and frightening that night and said Epps pointed the gun toward the closed door. Prosecutors noted inconsistencies between Gul's courtroom testimony and her earlier statements to investigators. Epps maintains he acted in self-defense.
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