Prosecution Wraps Its Case With Bold Phone Calls & Confession Tape

CHARLOTTE, NC — The defense can start calling witnesses tomorrow in the murder trial of Rayquan Borum.

Prosecutors accuse him of bringing a gun to the protests after the Keith Scott shooting to kill police, but Justin Carr stepped into the line of fire.

Prosecutors wrapped up their case Monday.

They called a total of 18 witnesses.

They played three phone calls they say Borum made from jail.

“I already done told them,” the man told the person he called.

“Told them what?” “That I [expletive] did it.”

In one call, the inmate can be heard saying, “I think I done [expletive] up this whole case, cuz…Yeah, I talked too much.”

The person on the other line says, “You done fucked up your whole life, bro, to be real. They going to tell you [expletive] like this just to scare you to get you to say something, bro.”

Jurors finished Borum’s lengthy confession tape Monday in which detectives tell Borum they think he fired a shot to disperse the crowd.

“Figured an accident would be something that’s softer, something that he’d be willing to talk about,” said Det. Franchot Pack.

Borum finally admits to that saying, “Nobody was the target.”

The defense tried to raise reasonable doubt pointing out police fed Borum the story.

“Is it possible that after you told him that he killed someone you told him he had a gun, that he lied to you as well?” the defense asked Det. Pack.

The prosecution’s last witness, the medical examiner, backed up the argument that a bullet killed Carr, not shrapnel in the chaos.

“When I spoke with the defense, about this possibility of a grenade, we’re talking military style,” said Dr. James Lozano. “Not the type that would be used in a riot situation.”

He told jurors shrapnel wound would be more irregular than the round wound on Carr’s head.