The jury that will decide whether David J. Grant is guilty of murdering one woman and wounding another at the Mai Thai Restaurant in Norwich three years ago has heard all the evidence and is expected to begin deliberating on Monday.

Prosecutor Stephen M. Carney rested his case Friday morning. Defense attorney Sebastian O. DeSantis called one witness, the bouncer who was on duty on June 24, 2012. Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday morning, and the jury will begin deliberating after receiving instructions from Judge Barbara Bailey Jongbloed.

Grant allegedly shot into a group of people gathered on the balcony of the restaurant on Laurel Hill Avenue in Norwich around closing time, killing 45-year-old Donna Richardson and wounding her niece, Crystal Roderick. The women had gone to the restaurant earlier to celebrate a graduation and remained to socialize with other family members.

The bouncer, Robert Beard, described hearing what he thought was a firecracker before stepping onto the balcony and hearing additional noises he realized were gunshots. He looked in the direction of the gunfire and saw "muzzle flash," but said he could not identify the gunman or a man who pushed the shooter away from the scene.

Beard ordered the balcony occupants to "get down" when the shooting started, then told them to leave before he returned into the bar. The jury saw a photograph of Beard, his cargo pants bloodied, that was taken by police after the shooting.

During the state's presentation of evidence, Carney elicited testimony from eyewitnesses, first responders and forensic experts and showed a videotaped interrogation of Grant to tie Grant to the shooting. Grant admitted he fired a gun in the direction of Isaiah "Zay" Lee that night. Grant said he was shot in the face around that time and was scared of being shot by Lee, who he said had shot another man.

He admitted tossing a gun and bullets out the window of the car as he drove from the scene with Steven "Cuda" Velez. A Mohegan Sun groundskeeper found a .38 caliber revolver in a pile of mulch on the casino's access road the next morning. The gun was tied to the shooting through ballistic testing, and Grant's DNA was on the trigger, according to testimony.

Roderick, the surviving victim, has been listening to the trial with other family members since she testified Wednesday that she had been speaking with Grant, whom she considered a friend, before the shooting. She testified that she did not see who shot her or Richardson that night.

Grant's family members have watched parts of the trial also, but were not in court Friday.

Grant is charged with murder, first-degree assault and criminal possession of a firearm. The judge will decide the firearm charge.

The defense has asked Jongbloed to allow the jury to consider a charge of manslaughter as an alternative to the murder charge and to instruct the jury members on the law pertaining to self-defense. DeSantis argued Friday, in support of a motion for a judgment of acquittal, that the state has not established that Grant intended to kill Richardson or that, as the state claims, there was a transfer of Grant's intent to kill Lee.

DeSantis argued also that Roderick, the niece, did not suffer injuries serious enough to reach the criminal threshold for first-degree assault. A surgeon had testified that the gunshot wound to Roderick's outer thigh was not life-threatening but would have been had it landed inches away.

The judge denied the motion for judgment of acquittal, saying that the evidence, if credited by the jury, would support a finding of guilty on all three charges.

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