He never saw it coming.
A parole officer testified in court today that the parolee who allegedly shot him struck too fast for him to even see his attacker.
Robert “Poison” Morales, 52, blasted his parole officer, Samuel Salters, in the right shoulder before a 2010 meeting in Salters’ downtown Brooklyn office, prosecutors charge.
”The event happened so quickly that I can’t say whether I saw him,” Salters said in Brooklyn Supreme Court. “I can remember falling to the ground … I can remember I couldn’t get up.”
Salters also testified that Morales had been a model parolee – up until the moment the grizzled ex-con allegedly blasted him with a 9mm handgun.
”I did not see Mr. Morales as a parolee that made any red flags to me,” Salters said.
After the 2010 shooting Morales said, “I’m just sorry he’s not dead,” authorities said.
Morales was on parole for setting a fire over a $2 debt that killed an 8-year-old boy. He was sentenced in 1979 to 25 years to life and was released in 2002.
Juror No. 6 – who held up the trial for five hours last week so he could auditon for “Law and Order” – told Judge Wayne Ozzi that multiple friends called him about media coverage of the delay but that the attention would not affect his ability to serve.
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