Testimony is under way in Springfield, Mass., where authorities have charged Edward Fleury with involuntary manslaughter in the death of an 8-year-old Connecticut boy.
Christopher Bizilj, of Ashford, was at the firing line with an Uzi Oct. 26, 2008, when he lost control of the machine gun and killed himself.
His father had taken him to the shoot, at the Westfield Sportsmen's Club. William Bennett, district attorney in Springfield, decided after the accident to prosecute Fleury and the Connecticut men who furnished the Uzi for the shoot.
Fleury's lawyer argued back and forth with a prosecution witness that Massachusetts law was not clear about whether a child could handle a machine gun. Rosemary Scapicchio also told the jury in her opening argument that other adults besides Fleury were closer to the boy and the Uzi than Fleury was when the boy died.
Video the boy's father took of his son misfiring the Uzi could be shown to the jury at some point during the trial, and then to the public, by decision of Judge Peter Velis, but Tuesday personnel from truTV were told to dismantle their interface with the courtroom video player.
