
Video used in an Orange County courtroom Tuesday shows the last minutes an Orlando police officer was alive. He took money from a Pine Hills ATM just before he was shot and killed two years ago.
The jury watched chilling video of off-duty officer Al Gordon at the ATM and then walking off into a trap that would take his life. Gordon was right behind suspect Hugo Terry at the ATM and Terry was trying to get cash from a stolen credit card.
Bank of America ATM security video shows more than a timeline of events; it shows off-duty Orlando Detective Al Gordon's last minutes before he was shot and killed. He waited in line behind one of his accused killers, 17-year-old Hugo Terry, who walked away after an unsuccessful attempt to withdraw money from a stolen credit card.
On the video, Gordon is shown at the ATM, looking behind himself more than once, where Terry and co-defendant Davin Smith were in their stolen car. Gordon looked at his receipt and then walked to his car. That's where off-duty Deputy Jennifer Allamby found him shot to death.
"I was not prepared for that. I panicked," Allamby testified Tuesday.
She did not check Gordon for a pulse until backup arrived. The medical examiner says he might have been conscious for several seconds after a single bullet pierced his lung and heart.
Deputy Allamby had heard what she thought was a gunshot almost ten minutes before, but at first she didn't see anything until a car parked next to her patrol car left.
"I saw a vehicle with the driver's side door open," she said. "Couldn't believe someone would be there with door open, no one at the ATM."
Terry and his partner, Davin Smith, were gone by the time she got there. Gordon had withdrawn $100 from the ATM. That $100 was still in his wallet with his badge when he was found.
Investigators believe Terry and Smith did not stick around long enough to find out he was an officer.
Source wftv.com