LITTLE ROCK, Ark. ? Jurors in the capital murder trial of a man charged with shooting two soldiers in Little Rock two years ago watched a video on Thursday of him confessing to police.
In the video recorded after his arrest, Abdulhakim Muhammad sat un-handcuffed in a police interrogation room and told detectives he shot the uniformed soldiers outside of a Little Rock military recruiting station after watching a video about a Muslim woman being raped. One of the soldiers died.
"I just made up my mind to retaliate," Muhammad said in the video.
In court on Thursday, the 26-year-old Muhammad looked down for a few moments while the video was being played. He is charged with capital murder for killing Pvt. William Andrew Long and attempted capital murder for wounding Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula in 2009.
He has admitted to the shootings, but says he was justified because of U.S. military action in the Middle East. His defense lawyers say he is mentally ill, though he and prosecutors disagree. If they can't win his acquittal, Muhammad's attorneys hope to keep him off death row.
Tom Hudson, a Little Rock police detective, testified that the officers who questioned Muhammad did not keep him in handcuffs during the interrogation because he was well-behaved.
"I don't have anything against police," Muhammad said in the video. "It's just the Army."
In court Thursday, Ezeagwula wore the same type of Army fatigues he had worn the day of the shooting, even though Muhammad's father, Melvin Bledsoe, had asked the judge not to allow anyone to testify in uniform.
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