After testifying Tuesday, Hadiya Pendleton’s mother watched as the man accused of gunning down her daughter--Micheail Ward--spent almost an entire day dodging police questions about the circumstances surrounding her murder.
The man conducting the interrogation: controversial, retired Chicago police Det. John Halloran, who confronted Ward about the contradictions in his alibi.
"You can’t lie about it, you can’t say you were at another school,you weren’t," Halloran said in the taped interrogation.
"The only thing you can do is tell the truth about what happened," he said.
At first Ward can be heard denying his role in the slaying of 15-year-old honor student, but Halloran was insistent, telling Ward he had evidence that the alleged gang member was in the car connected to the crime: a white Nissan belonging to his mother.
"You did a shooting at 12:15 p.m., you fired into a group of 13 people, do you realize the magnitude of that?" Halloran asked Ward.
At one point, Ward’s turquoise hoodie is confiscated after detectives told him it matched one worn by the gunman.
But defense attorneys allege the interrogation process was hard on Ward and put pressure him to offer up a false confession.
Defense Attorney 2:09:41 "You told him lying made him seem like a cold blooded killer who didn’t care about anyone," defense attorney Gina Piemonte said.
