Former lineman Eric Mack said teammate DeAngelo Benton began arguing inside an apartment complex clubhouse with Desmonte Leonard, 24, who is on trial for capital murder in the shooting. Partiers had been drinking "Jell-O shots" made of the dessert gelatin and alcohol, he said.
Mack said the dispute got "loud (and) heated," so he took Benton outside in an attempt to calm him down, and one-time teammates Ed Christian and Ladarious Phillips soon followed.
Identifying people and events in a surveillance video of the scene played by prosecutors for jurors, Mack said he kept Benton pinned against a wall and "a bunch of football players came out" with the woman who threw the party. Gunfire erupted in a breezeway near a parking lot after about four minutes of discussion, according to the soundless video and testimony.
