gun.jpgJACKSONVILLE (AP) — A 47-year-old Florida man reacted viciously to an argument over loud music with teenagers in a store parking lot and fired multiple shots into their vehicle, killing one of them, and then drove away as if nothing happened, a prosecutor said Wednesday in a closing argument at the man’s trial.

Defense attorneys maintained in their closing argument that the state failed to prove its case or show that Michael Dunn hadn’t acted in self-defense.

Assistant State Attorney Erin Wolfson told jurors that the evidence clearly shows 17-year-old Jordan Davis was unarmed when Michael Dunn fired 10 shots at a Dodge Durango in which Jordan was sitting. Wolfson said no witnesses saw any of the four teenagers in the vehicle with a weapon and police searches turned up none.

“This defendant was disrespected by a 17-year-old teenager and he lost it. He wasn’t happy with Jordan Davis’ attitude. What was his response? ‘You’re not going to talk to me like that,’”Wolfson said. “He took these actions because it was premeditated. It was not self-defense.”

Later in the afternoon, Dunn’s attorney Cory Strolla told jurors that the state had failed to prove its case or disprove Dunn’s assertion he acted in self-defense.

“Not one single witness said this man (Dunn) showed any signs of anger,” he said.

Strolla argued that there were no signs Dunn was planning to do anything that night and only asked the teens in the car to turn down the music. Strolla said they initially did, only to turn it back up again.

Strolla said Dunn fired his gun only when he saw Davis wielding a weapon from inside the Durango and felt threatened.

“He’s had that gun for 20 years and never pulled it once,” Strolla said. “He told you that nobody has ever scared him, no one has ever threatened him, like that.”

Police didn’t find a weapon in the SUV. Strolla contended that the teens got rid of it during the three minutes they were in an adjacent parking lot after fleeing the gunshots. He said detectives should have immediately gone to the area and searched but didn’t.

Jurors were expected to begin deliberations later Wednesday in Dunn’s trial on a first-degree murder charge. Dunn faces life in prison if convicted. He also faces attempted murder charges related to the other occupants of the SUV.

Dunn has pleaded not guilty, saying he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot Davis, of Marietta, Ga., outside a Jacksonville convenience store in 2012.

In his testimony Tuesday, Dunn told jurors he was in Jacksonville with his fiancée, Rhonda Rouer, to attend his son’s wedding. He had brought along his 7-month-old dog, and at one point in testimony, he wiped away tears when talking about Rouer and his dog.

Dunn said he and Rouer went to the convenience store for wine and chips. He said he pulled in next to an SUV playing loud music.

Dunn said he asked the teens turn down the music and they turned it off. “I said, ‘Thank you,’” he said. But soon afterward, Dunn said, he heard someone in the SUV shouting expletives and the word “cracker” at him. Cracker is a derogatory term for white people.

The music was turned back on and, Dunn testified, “I wasn’t going to ask for favors anymore.”

Dunn said the men in the SUV had “menacing expressions” and he asked the teens whether they were talking about him. He said he wanted to calm the situation but saw a teen in the backseat reach down for something. He said it looked as if the barrel of a shotgun was sticking out the window.

One of the teens stepped out of the SUV, Dunn said, and he felt “this was a clear and present danger.” He reached for his pistol in a glove box.

Dunn, who had a concealed weapons permit, fired nine shots into the car, according to an affidavit. Authorities say a 10th shot fired by Dunn missed the car. Once his fiancée returned to the car, he drove off out of fear of the SUV returning, he said.

In her closing argument, Wolfson said the actions Dunn took after the shooting are those of someone who thought he wouldn’t get caught.

“This defendant didn’t tell anyone because he thought he had gotten away with murder,” the prosecutor said.