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UPDATES: Where each bullet hit McDonald's and the extent of the damage | Pathologist testified about 16 shots at McDonald's | Shots fired from Van Dyke's gun | Sparring when McDonald died | No heart rate or pulse at the hospital | Testimony before the beginning of the jury | Prosecutors ask judge to reconsider testimony
12:15 pm: Where each bullet hit McDonald's and the extent of the damage
Prosecutors continue the arduous process of showing the jurors each of McDonald's 16 gunshot wounds, Dr. Arunkumar explaining where everyone struck the teen and the extent of the injuries he caused.
An injury to the head caused bleeding of the tissues surrounding the brain. Another bullet crossed the left side of his neck and lodged near his collarbone. Another entered his left chest and came out of the back of his left arm.
After about an hour on the stand, Arunkumar had swept jurors through six of 16 bullet wounds sustained by McDonald.
While she was speaking, jurors and spectators in the courtroom saw autopsy shots of the deep red, bullet-shaped bullet wounds all over McDonald's body. Members of the McDonald family, including a woman grabbing a handkerchief, remained in the courtroom for the testimony. The teenager's great-uncle, Reverend Marvin Hunter, was dark.
Van Dyke mostly looked straight ahead, occasionally glancing at a laptop on the table.
Laquan McDonald's Injuries: This document prepared by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office details injuries to Laquan McDonald
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11:44: Pathologist testifying about 16 shots at McDonald's
The chief medical examiner of Cook County, Dr. Ponni Arunkumar, took the stand to walk the jurors through Laquan McDonald's autopsy.
"Laquan McDonald's body was gunshoted 16 times," she said.
Freelance journalist Jamie Kalven was made aware of these autopsy findings in February 2015, four months after he was fatally shot. The police did not reveal at that time that McDonald had been shot so many times.
Arunkumar testified that there is no way to tell in what order the bullets hit McDonald's.
"The sequence of injuries is difficult to determine," she said.
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11:15 am: Gunfire was fired from Van Dyke's gun
A state police firearms examiner, Gregory Brate, told the jury that he had determined that the bullets he had examined during Laquan McDonald's shots were all from the same rifle.
Brate did not witness the shooting, but his testimony was crucial in establishing that officer Jason Van Dyke was the only officer on the scene that night to have shot with his gun.
Brate identified Van Dyke's 9 mm silver semi-automatic Smith and Wesson. In a meticulous manner, he also showed the jury several bullets and fragments drawn.
"I determined that they had all been fired from the same gun," he said about bullets.
He also showed 15 unused cartridges to indicate that Van Dyke had reloaded his gun after firing on McDonald's.
Brate scored the 20th witness of the prosecution within three days of the beginning of the testimony.
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10:52: Sparring when McDonald died
The excitement when precisely McDonald died continued with Chicago Fire Department paramedic Mark Smith on the stand. Smith responded at the intersection where McDonald was shot and found him lying on the street that night in October 2014.
McDonald had a slight boost when he entered the ambulance, although the heartbeat gradually weakened as they traveled to Mount Sinai Hospital, Smith testified.
"He had the pulse," Smith said.
"His heart was still beating?" Attorney Joseph Cullen asked.
"Yes, sir," said the rescuer.
Van Dyke's lawyer, Randy Rueckert, urged Smith to find out if McDonald's seemed to be out of the shooting scene and his heart stopped in the ambulance.
Smith confirmed both points.
But a few minutes later, Smith told prosecutors that paramedics continued CPR after McDonald's heart stopped and took him to the hospital for extra care.
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10:42: No heart rate or pulse at the hospital
The first witness on Wednesday morning was Alan Gayan, a registered nurse who worked in the emergency room the night Laquan McDonald was shot dead at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Gayan documented the activities of the trauma team's doctors during the half hour during which McDonald stayed in the emergency room.
Interviewed by Van Dyke's lawyers, Gayan said the records indicated that Laquan McDonald had neither pulse nor pulse – that he was already dead.
Prosecutors then challenged this finding, noting that Gayan was not a doctor.
The dispute over McDonald's death appears to have occurred if the police at the shooting scene should have tried to help him.
An officer from the Cook County Sheriff who followed the Chicago police on the scene said on Tuesday that he had gone to McDonald's to let him know that an ambulance was on his way. Adam Murphy said McDonald's "was out of breath and gurgling".
The nurse's testimony was brief but not without drama.
When Attorney Joe Cullen tried to collect testimony about the team's attempts to rescue the team, Judge Vincent Gaughan ended the interrogation and ordered the witness to leave the stand.
"I will warn all of you … to ask questions that are material and relevant," said the judge. "And do not go astray."
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10:15 am: Testimony before the beginning of the jury
After coming out of camera, McMahon said he would call Messick back at the bar later in the proceedings but limit his testimony to his expertise.
The FBI forensic videographer will be allowed to testify as to how he improved the video.
The prosecution will not show the jurors the video in question before perhaps after the testimony of other state witnesses, including a ballistics expert and a pathologist.
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Testimony before the jury began shortly before 10:15
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