The woman who survived an ambush-style shooting in February 2021 testified Wednesday against Carl Godfrey, who’s facing multiple charges for the shooting deaths of four people.
Maliaya Freeman was shot and wounded in the shooting on Feb 16, 2021, which Godfrey was allegedly the shooter of.
Cincinnati police described these killings in the winter of 2021 as a “reign of terror.”
Freeman described the moments she watched her boyfriend die, while sitting next to him in the car. Freeman said she was in the passenger seat. Her boyfriend, Deontay Otis, was driving, and the alleged intended target of the shooting, Aaron Whitfield, was sitting in the backseat behind Otis. Freeman said she ducked down to try and avoid getting shot but got hit. Once the shooting was over, she said she ran to a stranger’s apartment to call for help.
“Next thing you know, we just heard shots,” Freeman said on the stand Wednesday, while getting emotional describing what happened that day.
Prosecutors showed the jury 21 bullet holes that hit the car that day after three people fired multiple rounds at them. Otis died in the driver’s seat.