Jurors in the murder trial were shown bodycam footage from police officers

On the third day of Cyrus Ellerbe's trial, jurors watched the chaotic scene of a double murder through the body cameras of two police officers.

Mansfield police Officer Raymond Reedy was the second witness in Richland County Common Pleas Court on Thursday.

Ellerbe, 23, is charged with six counts of murder, eight counts of aggravated assault and discharging a firearm on or near a prohibited premises in connection with an Oct. 27 shooting during a house party at 810 Ferndale Road.

Jarmel Boyd, 17, and Brandon Collins, 18, were both killed and four others were injured. Reedy was the first to arrive at the Airbnb where the high school party was taking place.

He reported that he saw several people running out of the house and some going back inside when he arrived at 11:40 p.m.

When he entered the house, Reedy saw Boyd lying on the floor.

“Hey, can you hear me? Can you hear me?” the officer asked Boyd, who no longer had a pulse.

Next to Boyd was a strap attached to a gun. Reedy said he did not know who the gun belonged to.

Reedy entered a back bedroom and found another victim lying almost on top of Collins. He placed a tourniquet on the person who had been shot in the arm and side. Collins was motionless and unresponsive.

“It will help you,” Reedy told the man, who was screaming in pain. “It will stop the bleeding.”

There were several other people in the room.

“They said they (the shooters) just walked in and started shooting,” Reedy told First Assistant District Attorney Teri Burnside during direct questioning. “They said that over and over again.”

Reedy said the witnesses did not cooperate.

“Everyone acted like they didn’t know anything,” he said.

Reedy said the man he was putting the tourniquet on had the bolt from a Glock pistol and a bullet in the pocket of his sweatshirt. A paramedic with the city's fire department handed the bullet to Reedy.

A total of five handguns were seized from the Airbnb. Reedy said ballistics did not indicate whether the weapons were fired that night.

Officer Matthew Davis was second on the scene, right behind Reedy.

He said he removed the gun found by Boyd and placed it under the pillow in a bedroom while he went into the back room.

As in the Reedy case, witnesses said they did not know the shooter(s).

“Nobody has any idea who shot?” Davis asked. “I find that hard (to believe).”

He described most of the witnesses as calm, except for one man who screamed in pain and hit the bed when he saw Collins.

When the man saw Collins lying on the ground, Davis told him, “Come on, kid,” as he led him out of the house. Davis was asked why he was removing people from the Airbnb.

“It creates a safe environment,” the officer replied. “The faster you get everyone out, the safer it is for everyone else.”

Davis said the Jeep of a neighbor who lived across the street from the Airbnb was hit by two bullets.

The trial's first witness was Latressa Efird, whose daughter and a friend had rented the Airbnb for a Halloween party. Efird said her daughter told her there would be 10 or 11 people there, not the 40 to 50 prosecutors had spoken of in their opening statement.

Efird said she and her daughter had a girls' night out the night before the party. She said she called her daughter several times the next day.

At around 11:45 p.m., she was using Life360, a location-based service designed primarily to allow friends and family members to communicate their location to each other, and said the service had flipped.

Efird called her daughter, who was crying and saying there had been gunshots and people had been shot. Efird rushed to the scene.

“There were police everywhere,” she said, adding that one officer took her daughter in a patrol car.

Efird said the time since the shooting has been “tough.”

“People were following me. I was being filmed,” she said. “It made me angry and I felt threatened.”

During cross-examination, defense attorney Josh Brown asked how Efird's then 16-year-old daughter rented the Airbnb. It turned out that she and a friend had rented the apartment under Efird's identity without her knowing about it.

Brown asked Efird if she knew that the owner's Airbnb policy was no more than six people and no parties. Efird said she didn't know.

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