A videotape played Monday in a Los Angeles courtroom showed that Latasha Harlins had turned away from a scuffle with a Korean grocer when the black teen-ager was shot in the back of the head.
“This is not television. This is not the movies. This is real life,” Deputy District Attorney Roxane Carvajal had warned the jury. “You will see Latasha being killed. She will die in front of your eyes.”
The graphic images of the killing of 15-year-old Harlins, captured by a security camera inside the Empire Liquor Market in South-Central Los Angeles, drew gasps in the packed Superior Court courtroom where grocer Soon Ja Du is being tried for murder.
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