JACKSONVILLE -- The mother of a woman who was dating Jacksonville Jaguars player Richard Collier when he was shot and paralyzed told a court Wednesday she saw the gunfire from her apartment window.

Virginia Corbie testified Wednesday for the prosecution in the trial of Tyrone Hartsfield, 33, who is charged with shooting Collier on Sept. 2, 2008, as the athlete waited with a teammate in his car for their dates.

Corbie is the mother of Jemilia Corbie, who was dating Collier, and Natalia Corbie, Jemilia's younger sister. Collier and Kenny Pettway had followed the Corbie sisters to their mother's apartment complex in Riverside and were waiting for them to come back out.

Virginia Corbie says she looked out the window and saw a man holding a gun with both hands, shooting at Collier's red Cadillac Escalade.



"It was dark and I couldn't see anything," she told jurors.

Also testifying Wednesday was Jacksonville Sheriff's Officer Wes Whitehead, who was first to respond to the shooting.

Whitehead said he found Collier laying across the center console, with his head in the back seat and his body in the front seat.


The state's star witness, Stephan Wilson, on federal probation in an Atlanta bank robbery, is expected to take the stand later Wednesday or Thursday. He told police he went with Hartsfield to the shooting scene. He secretly recorded five hours of tape of his conversations with Hartsfield.

Collier, 28, testified Tuesday that he was sitting his car outside the women's home talking with his teammate when a barrage of gunshots began. He says he never saw the shooter and neither did his friend.

