A man who faced charges for a deadly pop-up party shooting walked out of the Leon County Courthouse Friday evening a free man.
Dreshawn Barber , 25, was arrested in 2020 on charges of premeditated homicide and possession of a firearm by a delinquent adult, according to court records. But after a two-day trial, a jury found him not guilty and he was released from custody.
Mutaqee Akbar, Barber’s attorney, said it was a “mostly circumstantial case.”
“Nothing tied him to it other than just one witness who was unreliable,” Akbar said of the shooting.
The witness initially identified Barber, then during his deposition two or three weeks ago, Akbar said he told them he didn’t actually see anything, but reverted back to his original statement during trial that it was Barber.
On July 25, 2020, more than 300 people gathered outside of a gas station on West Orange Avenue the night that a man was shot and killed. Surveillance footage showed the parking lot was flooded with cars and people drinking, smoking dancing and hanging out, according to the arrest report.