'You stabbed me,' boy tells father at double-murder trial

We start from here at six with this boy's act of bravery after surviving the unthinkable. I just saw my dad holding a shotgun and my mom likes it and mom yells at him. That little boy testifying at his

father

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murder

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. He is Ronnie's son. 'neill, his

father

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for the

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of the boy's mother and sister and also for trying to kill Ronnie supposedly now because he represents himself, this creates the unusual scenario of the father interrogating his own son of which the man He is accused of trying. to kill him and now she's basically questioning his son's testimony.

Fox13's Aaron Mesmer is live in court in Hillsborough County. Erin is even separated by a video screen because the boy is in a remote location. This took incredible courage for this now 11 year old. -Man, yes, Chris, he was incredibly brave, he showed incredible composure in that remote place when he gave testimony this morning and had to describe all these horrible events that occurred that night. What you are about to hear is part of The testimony of little Ronnie, now 11 years old, was followed by part of the interrogation he experienced with his father, who, as you said, represents himself.

This was the first time they had seen each other and spoken since the attack. uh in March 2018. say that he is ready to continue yes, yes, sir. I just saw my dad holding a shotgun and my mom like his mom yelled at him and his dad got shot. What happened after? What did he do? My mom granted me. my sister's room, but I'm using my sister's room and breaking weed in the closet and then my dad is sad and comes in here and kills this critic. Did you hear any shots from the shotgun before that? Yes, how many times were there at one time?

When your mother was able to come out of the closet she was like stumbling around outside and then I told my dad that he chased her. What do you remember happening next? My dad told me to walk and say some words and do you remember what words you say? Father told you to say, did he do something to your sister? Yes, he did it with an ax and then went into the garage. I followed him. He looked like he put me on the ground and then had her foot on top of her. She was face down, I had her foot on top of me and she was holding me down and she was like riding the match, Mr.

Neil, any questions, how is she doing? Good to see you, man, did you see me shoot your mother? Didn't I hurt you? you that night of this incident yes, I did it and how I hurt you, he stopped me. Investigators have said Ronnie O'Neill tried to set her son and his house on fire before this night of violence ended, investigators say again, that was the first. The time that father and his son have seen each other since that violent night in March 2018, uh, the boy's father, what you heard there was that he was trying to question his son, remember his son's memory of the events of that night and him.

I know you say there is some kind of inconsistency between what the boy says now and what he had told detectives and lawyers in the years since that night, but there is one thing, however, that prosecutors have really tried to uncover. criticize Homie or what I tried to make sure the jury understood is that in their opinion there is only one person who could have carried out the crimes that were committed that night and that person is the defendant ronnie o'neill the third live in tampa erin messner fox 13 news