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of mr. genzler, mr. harless over here. i probably don t want to fight. i would back up, he would back me up. grab my arm and turn me up and drive my head down into a position i cannot get up. he pulls my head back, i realize i have a knife in my belt, and i take it out, plenty of room to stab whoever i want to stab. the prosecutors scoffed at this notion as did dusty s family. david genzler would have us believe that he was laying face down on the ground and dusty was sitting on his back and that david actually stabbed dusty like this up over the back of his head and stabbed him in the chest while he was sitting on his back. i mean, there are just so many things that don t wash here. but if genzler was telling the truth, why was the blood all over the front of his shirt and not the back?
version of events was significantly different. he said dusty harless instigated the fight by pulling him out of his car and wrestling him face down to the ground. he also said that scott davis, the so-called witness, was in fact an active participant. genzler insisted is that davis kicked him repeatedly, while dusty had him pinned down, but managed to get a knife out of his pocket to defend himself. he was thinking he was getting his ass kicked and he was in fear of his life and he blindly reaches back and stabs him. is it likely or unlikely? i really can t say. and that is what made the one stab wound into pretty much the center of the chest of dusty. a week after dusty s death, police found genzler s car parked on the other side of the city. we were able to get dna from the steering wheel, from the gear shift and the turn signal, and that dna, that blood came back and matched that of the victim, dusty harless.
really. he had like a crazy look in his eyes and got in his car and left. so? yeah, he didn t say anything. eventually, an eyewitness came forward. his name was scott davis. he said he was driving by and saw two men fighting and stopped to try to break it up. scott davis was a first class petty officer with the navy who was moonlighting as a bouncer at a local bar. and he drove up just as this was beginning. and what he said is as he drove up, he saw the beginning of the confrontation and he saw the defendant take a hard swing and hit dusty on the left side of his head and that dusty went down on his back, that the defendant jumped on top of him, straddled him, pulled out a knife with his right hand and stabbed him once in the chest. davis said he fled the scene because genzler had threatened him, too, but david genzler s