'He Ran Like A Child': Prosecutor's Rebuttal Argument In Cyrus Carmack-Belton Murder Trial

Assistant Solicitor Byron Gipson gave the rebuttal today after Rick Chow's attorney's closing argument. 09:10 "I submit to you that folks, if Cyrus was this thug that they keep telling you that he was by showing you pictures and trying to get you thinking in that direction, we never would have gotten 130 yards down the road." "Folks, he ran. He ran like a child. He ran from the adult." 15:37 "Another witness, another witness, Jasmine Broadwood, another vantage point. They're running directly to her. Did she say she ever saw a gun in Cyrus's hands? No. Did she ever say she saw Cyrus point? No." 17:36 "I'm the boss, and I'm the person who, at the end of the day, gets the opportunity to say, hey, we need to bring this witness to that witness, so y'all blame me for this one. This is my fault. I will say this. It's my fault. Maybe we should have brought in another expert, maybe a 10 year old or a 12 year old or a 13 year old who can talk to us about the intricacies of cellphones. My gosh, man. Maybe they could tell you that if you hit the right click button on an app, so maybe we should have had an expert to talk about apps on phones, and the fact that in 2026 even back in 2023 you did not have to have cash in order to buy stuff you can pay on the phone." 23:20 " For over an hour, Andy sat, sat on that stand, and he said a lot of things, said a whole well, he said a lot of things, but did you ever hear the two words, I'm sorry, I'm sorry that I wrongfully accused this kid of stealing and chased him down the road, you know why you didn't hear that, because he's not. This is about product over people. This is about inventory. This is not about a person's life." 25:56 "And none of this happens if they stay their behinds in the store and used that intricate camera system that picked up on every angle, could see everything from what he wore, the type of shoes that he wore, the direction he went, everything. Couple seconds is all it would have taken, just like it did in the store to say, "Hey, you know what, we were wrong, but they didn't do that."