TalkLeft finds a report I wasn’t able to track down. The Hattiesburg American newspaper ran a summary of Cory Maye’s testimony in his own defense in an article from January 2004:

The man accused of killing Prentiss police officer Ron Jones in December 2001 testified Thursday that he didn’t know Jones was a law enforcement officer when he shot him.

Cory Maye, 23, said he was asleep on a chair in the living room of his Prentiss apartment as his 14-month-old daughter slept in the bedroom when he heard a loud crash at his front door. “I immediately ran to my daughter’s room, got a pistol, put in a magazine and chambered a round,” said Maye, who is on trial for capital murder in Marion County. “As I laid on the floor by the bed, I heard kicks at the back door. I was frightened, I thought someone was trying to break in on me and my daughter.”

Maye testified that it was dark in his apartment when he heard someone breaking into the back door, which was located in the bedroom. “That’s when I fired the shots,” Maye said. “After I fired the shots, I heard them yell ‘police! police!’ Once I heard them, I put the weapon down and slid it away. I did not know they were police officers.”

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