Jury in Liang case sees photos

The manslaughter trial of Chinese-American NYPD Officer Peter Liang entered its sixth day on Thursday.

The medical examiner offered ballistic details.

After hitting the wall of the darkened stairwell, the bullet entered Aki Gurley’s body above his left nipple, fractured his rib, pierced his heart and ended up in his liver.

Photos of Gurley’s body and face were shown with diagrams to the jury and about a hundred people sitting in on the hearing at Kings County State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.

Gurley’s family in the audience looked away. His mother held her head with her hands over her eyes.

On Nov 20, 2014, Officer Liang and his partner Officer Shaun Landau were on vertical patrol in the Louis H. Pink Houses in East New York, Brooklyn, where Gurley was visiting his girlfriend and her family.

Liang took out his handgun as he opened the door to a dimly lit stairwell. A bullet discharged from his weapon, ricocheted off the wall and fatally hit Gurley.

The prosecutor’s case has been focusing on Liang’s behavior immediately after the shooting. Instead of administering CPR to Gurley, Liang “stood there whining and moaning about how he could get fired,” said prosecutor Marc Fliedner in his opening statement.

Liang is facing manslaughter and other charges in the death of Gurley, 28.

The trial entered day six with a cross-examination of Liang’s partner Landau, who was grilled by Liang’s defense attorney Robert E. Brown about inconsistencies in his accounts.

Landau had told assistant district attorneys that only two minutes elapsed from the time Liang’s gun went off before they went down the stairs to see if anyone was hurt.

In testimony before the grand jury he said it took four minutes.

Brown also pointed out that Landau’s testimony on Tuesday was inconsistent with what he told investigators eight hours after the incident.

In court, Landau said Liang reacted to the shooting by saying, “It went off by accident. I’m fired.” He didn’t mention that Liang added “I’m fired” in his first recollection.

Questioned about CPR, Landau said they were given very limited training at the Police Academy and questions and answers were given to them so they could pass the CPR written exam.

The two officers left Gurley’s girlfriend Melissa Butler to perform CPR on him while getting instructions from a neighbor who was on the phone with 911.

Questioned by Brown about his inaction, Landau admitted that he didn’t feel qualified to perform CPR.

“What do you mean — you didn’t know what to do or felt unqualified to do CPR?” asked Brownr.

“I didn’t feel qualified,” answered Landau.

“You didn’t feel more qualified than the woman over him?” “No,” he said. Two sergeants testified that Liang was distraught, hyperventilating, and needed oxygen in the ambulance when they arrived on the scene, a Daily News reporter Tweeted from the courtroom.

Officer John Funk, who was in the same Police Academy class as Liang, said he had never touched a mannequin during CPR training.

But, Funk said he would be prepared to use his CPR training on a civilian if someone needed it.