{"id":70754,"date":"2025-12-04T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70754\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:13:08","slug":"jurors-see-fallen-officers-bloodied-shirt-as-they-weigh-whether-killer-should-get-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70754\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurors see fallen officer\u2019s bloodied shirt as they weigh whether killer should get death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Raw video and raw emotions were displayed in court on Wednesday as jurors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/02\/prosecutors-play-emotional-video-in-death-penalty-phase-for-hollywood-police-officers-killer\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/02\/prosecutors-play-emotional-video-in-death-penalty-phase-for-hollywood-police-officers-killer\/\">for a second day<\/a>, weighed the fate of the 22-year-old man who gunned down Hollywood police Officer Yandy Chirino.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Broward County prosecutors played clips showing why they think the crime was \u201cespecially heinous,\u201d meriting the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In October, Jason Banegas told the court he is guilty of shooting and killing Chirino, 28, when the officer was responding to a call of a suspicious person checking for unlocked cars. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Banegas was 18 years old at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe loss of Officer Chirino was not simply a tragic event; it caused a permanent wound,\u201d Hollywood Police Department Chief Jeffrey Devlin testified on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Devlin told the jury during his victim impact statement that the emotional impact on the department of the 2021 line-of-duty death of Chirino is profound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOfficer Chirino\u2019s death was sudden, violent and senseless,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jurors also heard from a medical examiner who walked them through graphic autopsy photos cataloging bullet entry and exit wounds as prosecutors presented evidence of aggravating factors, arguing the shooting was especially heinous, atrocious and cruel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They also showed the jury the physical evidence, which included the officer\u2019s blood-stained uniform polo shirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The jury will have to determine whether life or death is the appropriate punishment for Banegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Proceedings were set to continue on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Raw video and raw emotions were displayed in court on Wednesday as jurors, for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-70754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}