A brazen gun battle in Algiers eight years ago played out in late-afternoon traffic and left dozens of people “trapped in the middle of gunfire on General de Gaulle Drive,” a prosecutor said Monday.
“In the moment, people were just thinking about getting out alive,” Assistant Attorney General Daniel Smart told a jury as a retrial got underway for two men accused in the violence.
Smart said defendant Dermell Lewis ran down the busy street firing rounds from two rifles, an SKS and an AK-47, one in each hand. When one jammed, he pulled out a .40-caliber pistol as alleged accomplice Corey Major kept pace in a white work truck, Smart said…