DNA, firearms testimony take center stage as prosecution rests in Mobile capital murder trial

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Prosecutors called their final two witnesses Thursday in the capital murder trial of Jesse Patrick McClure – a pair of forensic investigators who examined DNA and firearms evidence.

Prosecutors then rested their case against the 56-year-old Bay Minette man, who is accused of breaking into a house in Mobile in January 2021 and shooting everyone inside.

Tommi Daniels, who at the time worked for the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, testified that DNA taken from the trigger of a gun found in a home where the defendant was staying was a match to his profile…

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