The voices of each of the first three police officers who testified at De Aujalae Evans’ trial were clogged with emotion.
At the beginning of their time on the stand at the trial in which Evans pleaded guilty to intoxication manslaughter of a peace officer and elected to have a jury assess her punishment, the witnesses answered prosecutors’ introductory questions with flat speech.
When the topic turned to the ways in which Fort Worth Police Department Sgt. Billy Randolph had shaped them and how his death had altered their lives, responses came after long pauses and were choked with grief…