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Prosecutor Roderick Fancher says around 6 p.m on Aug. 14, Keenan Jones was in a checkout line at the busy Walmart on Easton Road in Cheltenham.
He was arguing with his sister when he made eye contact with a man in the line. Fancher says Jones asked that man what he was looking at, but before the man could answer, Jones reached into his sister’s waistband and grabbed her gun, pointed at the man’s leg and fired one shot.
Fancher says Jones realized what he’d done and that he needed to escape. As he ran for the door, Fancher says Jones pointed the gun at a store manager and fired five times.
Matthew Hungerford with the Cheltenham Township Police Department was in the parking lot when people began flooding out of the Walmart.
He testified as he entered the store, he saw one woman with a gunshot wound hiding behind a register, another with her leg propped up on a tipped over shoping cart with a gunshot wound to her ankle.
In all, five people were shot, and all survived.
Defense attorney Vanessa Bellino says Jones is not the monster prosecutors are trying to paint him to be. She says he watched his father die on the street when he was 16. Then, just months before the shooting, he saw his friend get killed.
And just before the shooting, Bellino told jurors, Jones’ girlfriend of three years had been in labor for more than 36 hours and had just been told she needed an emergency C-section.
Bellino asked jurors to keep an open mind listen to the evidence, saying at the end of the trial, she’ll ask them to find Jones not guilty by reason of insanity.