People v. Marshall

On July 15, 2008, at about 9:30 p.m., Abdul Salan Zakari, Tete Eteh Benissan, Abdoulaye Zibo, and the victim, A1 Moustapha Oumaria, were sitting on a stoop on Albany Avenue in Brooklyn, drinking and smoking cigarettes. They were suddenly approached by a thin, dark-skinned man, dressed in a white shirt, dark jeans, and dark hat. Neither Benissan nor Zibo had ever seen the man before. The man started firing a gun. Oumaria was shot and killed.

Once the defendant became a suspect, a detective composed a photo array using the New York City Photo Management Database. Benissan viewed the photo array…