Video of vicious beating leads jury to convict two Buffalo men of kidnapping, robbery
The video showed a drug addict pleading for his life as one defendant shoved a gun in his mouth after he had been kidnapped and then terrorized for 17 hours in the other defendant’s home because of a drug debt.
It also showed the victim being forced to lick his blood off the boot of a third attacker.
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Dawson recorded the beating of Barry Workman with his cellphone camera Dec. 28 and posted it on his Facebook page under the name “Shooter Steve.”
Dawson believed that Workman was a snitch who had brought police to Dawson’s home on a car complaint, and he posted the video to show what happens to snitches, Dell said.
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The video showed Dawson pistol-whipping Workman and then putting the gun in his mouth and telling him to suck the gun barrel “or I’ll pop you,” while Workman pleaded with him not to shoot him.
It showed Willie Stroud, who pleaded guilty to reduced charges and testified at trial, forcing Workman to lick his blood off Stroud’s boot, because he feared that Workman’s blood and DNA would implicate him.
Woods also was convicted of second-degree assault for placing a power drill on Workman’s front tooth and squeezing the trigger, breaking half his tooth.
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In his closing statement, Assistant District Attorney John P. Feroleto, who had played the video of the gun and the boot licking during the trial, again played the 90-second portion showing Dawson shoving the gun into Workman’s mouth, threatening to shoot him and calling him a police snitch as Workman begged for mercy.
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