Eddie Harper is Joanie Harper's brother and Earnestine Harper's son. He gave a victim impact statement today in court.
As Eddie Harper wrapped his testimony, Vincent Brothers leaned forward and tried to catch Harper's attention. He lipped several words and bowed forward with his hands together in a praying motion. Eddie Harper talked with us afterwards.
"I really don't know," Harper said. "It was strange at the least for him to try to talk to me. And then he wasn't really saying words, he was mouthing them like I was supposed to understand."
"I didn't get that feeling [that he was asking for forgiveness,]" he continued.
He said he couldn't hear what Brothers was saying, but he doesn't think he was apologetic or asking for forgiveness. Brothers and Harper were admonished not to talk to one another. Joanie's sister, Elain Byrd, said she thought Brothers may have been threatening her brother.
"He was mouthing it even before Eddie got off the stand," Byrd said."I thought I got what he said, and I don't want to say it at this point, but I did not feel [he was being] apologetic."
