Jurors in Teen Murder Trial Watch Video
Jurors on Monday watched the videotaped statement given to police by a boy accused of murdering his middle school English teacher on the final day of classes last year.
Nathaniel Brazill, now 14 and on trial as an adult, told Lake Worth police that he returned to school with a loaded gun because he was angry over being suspended for throwing a water balloon.
He said he became angry at English teacher Barry Grunow when Grunow refused to let him talk with two girls inside his classroom. But he said he didn’t plan to shoot Grunow.
“He pushed me away and told me to go to class, and he had a smile on his face, and he was laughing, and that made me mad,” Brazill told police hours after the May 26 shooting. “I think I pulled out the gun. I was shaking a lot. I could hardly hold the gun.”
Lawyer Robert Udell maintains the tape will support his client’s defense that the shooting was an accident.
The defense contends the shooting was caused by a cheap .25-caliber semiautomatic in the hands of an inexperienced 13-year-old.
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