Allen related such details about himself openly, and was equally frank with Moses about what he had seen at the cotton gin. Lee didn’t have a tire iron or anything else, he said. Lee had told Hurst that he wouldn’t talk to him as long as Hurst had a gun out, and Lee had jumped out of his truck near where Allen had been standing. Hurst then had run around the truck and shouted, “I’m not playing with you this morning!” Then he shot Lee in the head from a few feet away. Allen had testified about the tire iron because that’s what he was told to say, and he went along to protect his own life and
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