Using the term “ground and pound,” John Good, who lived at the housing complex where Mr. Martin was killed, testified that he heard a noise, walked out to his unscreened back porch and saw, about 20 to 30 feet away, someone in dark clothes “straddling” someone wearing white or red who was lying on the ground. The person on top, he said, was using “arm motions going down, not just once but multiple times.”
Mr. Good said he asked, “What’s going on?”
“No one answered,” he said. “At some point, I said ‘cut it out’ and ‘I’m calling 911,’ when I thought it was getting really serious.”
It sounded to him, he said, that the person on the bottom was crying out for help because common sense told him that and the direction of the voice indicated that. But, Mr. Good added, he could not be “100 percent sure.”