Woman Testifies She Saw Son Gun Victim Down

The 30-year-old son of a Los Angeles police sergeant was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on murder charges in connection with last month’s deadly shooting of his brother-in-law over a Nintendo game.

The defendant’s mother was the primary witness in a preliminary hearing held Wednesday in Ventura County Superior Court.

Bonnie Myers told a judge she watched her son, Paul Myers, gun down her 26-year-old son-in-law, Jason Weaver, on Aug. 11. She testified that an argument broke out between her son and Weaver over the game as the pair stood at the entrance to her garage.

Weaver, a Granada Hills resident, tried to get away and ran down the driveway but was shot several times and fell to the ground. Myers said her son stopped firing when Weaver collapsed.

Myers told Superior Court Judge Edward Brodie that she never saw Weaver swing at her son or try to injure him in any way. Weaver, who was hospitalized after the shooting, died the next day.

Paul Myers, whose father is a Los Angeles Police Department sergeant, was arrested almost immediately after the shooting. He was charged with a single count of murder Aug. 18, and faces two allegations of using a deadly firearm during a crime. He has pleaded not guilty.