K Street shooting defendant Payton takes stand, recounts deadly 2022 shootout

Mtula Payton sprinted down 10th Street toward J Street and his parked car, firing behind him as he ran. He didn’t know who he was shooting or where the gunshots were coming from, he said.

“Everybody was running in the same direction as me. People were getting shot around me. I was scared,” Payton told his attorney Reed Kingsbury from the witness stand.

“Of what?” Kingsbury asked…

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