Kerrick Trial - Day 5 - July 24

What to know:

Randall "Wes" Kerrick is accused of shooting and killing unarmed Jonathan Ferrell in September 2013.
Jury selection could take weeks with 1,900 potential jurors. 1,019 are expected the first week; 880 are expected the next.
Dash cam video will be released during the trial.

Trial Archive:

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Officer Randall "Wes" Kerrick is charged with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of unarmed black man Jonathan Ferrell. Friday will mark day five of jury selection in the trial.

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4:16 p.m. update: Attorneys will pick up on Monday with jury selection in the manslaughter trial of Charlotte Mecklenburg police officer Randall "Wes" Kerrick.

Attorneys have agreed on nine of the 12 jurors, and so far the panel includes seven women and two men.

Six of the jurors are white, two African-American and one Hispanic.

Attorneys will also select four alternates before testimony begins in the case.

They spent several hours Friday morning questioning several potential jurors—one was excused because she told the judge she could not afford to miss work for the four or five weeks the trial is expected to last and another was excused because he will be getting married in two weeks.

Questioning continued until Judge Robert Ervin adjourned court after noon.

Families of both Kerrick and the man he shot and killed, Jonathan Ferrell, have been in the courtroom for most of the jury selection process and Friday afternoon Ferrell’s mother only had a brief comment for reporters.

“Just thank you, and keep God first,” Georgia Ferrell said as she walked to the parking lot with her son.

Court is set to resume at 9:30 a.m. Monday.

Friday 12:17 p.m. update: Around noon Friday, court was adjourned until Monday morning.

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Friday 12:07 p.m. update: After rapid fire developments Thursday where nine jurors were seated, things have moved a little more slowly Friday.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys have been questioning three potential jurors to fill the vacant spots.

Despite all of the publicity, one of those potential jurors said he had forgotten all about the case until Monday morning.

Two of the people being questioned are men and the third is a woman. Two are white while the other is Hispanic.

Channel 9’s legal analyst said attorneys are not allowed to consider race as part of their selection process.

“We live in a diverse community -- probably more so than if you go to some outside communities -- because of that I would expect a diverse jury,” said Rob Corbett.

Friday 9 a.m. update: Attorneys only need to find three more jurors, plus several alternates in the voluntary manslaughter trial of CMPD officer Randall "Wes" Kerrick.

They seated nine jurors Thursday, on the fourth day of jury selection.

TIMELINE: Police detail of events in officer-involved shooting

Of those nine jurors, seven are women and two are men. Six are white, two are African American and one is Hispanic.

Attorneys said none of them think race should be part of the trial.

Channel 9 will continue to tweet out updates from jury selection while outside the courtroom today, follow WSOC on Twitter.

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Randall "Wes" Kerrick is accused of shooting and killing unarmed Jonathan Ferrell on Sept. 14, 2013.

Three officers were called to the 7500 block of Reedy Creek Road in east Mecklenburg County around 2:30 that morning. A woman told police Ferrell was banging on her front door.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said Ferrell ran toward the officers when they arrived. One of the officers deployed his Taser, but it was unsuccessful. Kerrick fired his weapon 12 times at close range. Ten of the shots hit Ferrell, killing him.

Police later discovered a wrecked car that Ferrell was driving about 500 yards away. Officers say Ferrell was unarmed.

IMAGES: 1 dead in officer-involved shooting in east Charlotte

Around 9:30 p.m. Sept. 14, 2013, Kerrick was charged with voluntary manslaughter, marking the first time an officer in Charlotte had been charged with manslaughter for actions on duty.

Kerrick was released from jail on a $50,000 bond. He remains suspended without pay from CMPD.

Ferrell, a former football player at Florida A&M University, was living in Charlotte with his fiancée. A toxicology report released in November showed Ferrell had 60 mg/dl of ethanol in his system, equal to a .06 if blown during a DWI check point. The legal limit in North Carolina is .08.

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The Ferrell family filed a civil suit against the city, county, CMPD and former Police Chief Rodney Monroe on Jan. 14, 2014. The suit was settled in May 2015 for $2.25 million.

George Laughrun and Michael J. Greene will represent Kerrick. His attorneys were hired by the Fraternal Order of Police.