NASHVILLE, Tenn.: A prosecutor and defense attorney agreed Monday that jurors won’t have any doubt that the man charged with killing a Tennessee sheriffs deputy in 2018 did in fact fatally shoot him and set fire to his patrol car and his body inside of it.
The only question jurors may have in the case against Steven Wiggins over the killing of Dickson County Sheriff’s Sgt. Daniel Baker, the defense argued during opening statements, is whether it was premeditated.
Prosecutors have charged Wiggins with first-degree murder and are seeking the death penalty in the grisly slaying that set off a two-day manhunt. Wiggins also faces federal charges in the 32-year-old officer’s death.
District Attorney Ray Crouch opened the trial by sharing Baker’s last words: Shots fired. Officer down.
This crime is on camera. The defendant has confessed, Crouch said. Theres scientific testing, fingerprints, DNA, ballistic testings, all to confirm and reconfirm that the defendant committed these…