Austin Shuffield faces aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault serious bodily injury charges for the 2019 beating of L'Daijohnique Lee in Deep Ellum.
L'Daijohnique Lee cried on the stand while watching cell phone video of her brutal encounter with Austin Shuffield in March 2019.Shuffield, who is already guilty of obstructing justice in thefaces aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault serious bodily injury charges for the violence.
Cell phone video from the incident shows Shuffield knocking a phone out of Lee's hand, before she punches him. Shuffield responded by throwing five punches of his own.Prosecuting attorney Messina Madson says the video is the key to proving Shuffield's guilt. "How he kept backing her up, how she was backing up fumbling with her phone trying to get it. You see her reactions, you see him bowed up, you see him getting in her space, you see him backing her up with that gun," she said during closing arguments.She says he was not the same person under police questioning, because he wanted to control the narrative.
"He is calm. He is polite he is a different person, and he's good at it, right? He's good at it, and she is a mess. She is a mess, her ears are ringing, she's bleeding, she's fallen out of her shirt, she doesn't know what happened to her. She is so shocked by this and she's lost it, and he's using it against her and the police get there and they treat her like the suspect.
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