Nearly a decade after filmmaker Kevin Epps shot and killed his former brother-in-law, Marcus Polk, an eyewitness testified on Friday that Epps had drawn a gun on Polk the night before the shooting.
Starr Gul, Polk’s former wife, was the only other person in the room when Epps shot Polk on Oct. 24, 2016. Epps, an award-winning filmmaker and the executive editor of the San Francisco Bay View newspaper, is on trial for Polk’s murder. Epps says he shot in self-defense.
In a lengthy, often tearful testimony that lasted from Thursday afternoon through Friday and into Monday morning, Gul described the shooting she witnessed from the hallway in Epps’ Glen Park home. She said she saw no reason for Polk to be killed…