Eyewitnesses and 911 recordings describe melee, a man on a car hood and shots at Chick-fil-A parking lot

Several witnesses who said they were near McCullough and Loop 410 on April 23, 2017, told jurors they saw a struggle inside a black four-door vehicle, a man climb onto the vehicle's hood and gunfire in the Chick-fil-A parking lot, according to testimony and 911 calls admitted in the 187th District Court.

Why this matters: eyewitness descriptions, their vantage points and 911 audio are central to who the jury will credit. Accounts presented at trial differ on details that bear on identity, intent and whether a robbery preceded the shooting.

State witnesses who were traveling in a red Chrysler and stopped at the traffic light testified they saw a struggle in the black car behind them. Ashley Buentello, who identified herself on the record and said she lived in San Antonio, testified she was in the red Chrysler and that she saw an African-American front-seat passenger she later described as…