His excuses are “nonsense.”
In a rousing summation to jurors, prosecutors yesterday mocked the stories accused cop killer Lamont Pride told investigators about the night he gunned down Brooklyn Police Officer Peter Figoski.
“He wants you to believe he was handed the gun right before he walked in,” thundered Assistant District Attorney Ken Taub.
“Nonsense, ladies and gentleman!”
In order to convict Pride on aggravated-murder charges and lock him up for life, Taub must prove that Pride “intended” to kill Figoski.
“This was not an accidental shot. This was a deliberate shot to make his escape and prevent Officer Figoski from arresting him,” Taub told a rapt Brooklyn Supreme Court jury.
“That’s murder, and it’s aggravated murder.”
Pride claims he shot Figoski in the face by accident as he tried to escape a botched robbery in a ratty East New York apartment in December 2011.
Pride’s defense team offered no case or witnesses. The killer declined to testify.
“The burden of proof is that he intended to kill Officer Figoski and that he knew he was a police officer. They haven’t done that,” defense attorney James Koenig said.
Frank Figoski, the father of the slain cop, and his son’s four daughters were in court again yesterday, bravely sitting through yet more chilling descriptions of their father’s death.
The jury will begin their deliberations today.