>> reporter: family members, both sides, sherdavia jenkins's family sits on the prosecution side, so e facing the judge and the witness, left side of the courtroom. her mother and father, sherrone and david jenkins have been there. her older sister who is in college, was there yesterday. her grandmother and great-grandmother were there yesterday. the victim's advocate also sits with the parents. not everyone is there today, the parents are both there today, though. and other spectators. it's a fairly full gallery. in fact, at least one of the two attorneys for leroy larose has been sitting in court waiting for larose and following the case as well. and on damon darling's side a number of people who haven't all identified themselves yet, but his mother, among them, have been in the courtroom. >> beth, we've learned a great deal about sherdavia jenkins. you've talked to her grandmother about it and we've seen the piece before. an astonishly successful little girl even at age 9, and despite all of the difficulties of where she was living, involved parents obviously doing a good job with

the second witness was sharon jenkins, sherdavia's mother. took the stand to set the scene on that fateful day, saturday afternoon about 3:00. it was july 1, 2006. sher ron jenkins was home with three of her five children, one of them, her daughter, shea, she was there when shea was killed. >> when i came past the living room, my oldest son said, "mom, shea been shot." and i didn't see anybody until i just saw her coming in through the front door. collapse on the floor. >> was she responding to? >> no she wasn't. >> little she had dave ya was only 9 years old, bleeding profusely from the right side of her neck, her mother tried to render aid but daughter died in her arms. >> other testimony as well from the sister laid the foundation for what exactly the little girls were doing in the front yard at the time that the shots rang out. tell me a little bit about catherine's testimony and what she was able to bring to this courtroom and to the story? >> catherine is 14 months younger than her sister, 8 years old at the time. she, she had dave ya an

the bullet recovered from sherdavia jenkins had damage to it.he opined it had hit another obstacle before hitting her neck, still having enough velocity to go into her neck, but didn't exit her neck. it was an ak-47, if it was a direct hit, it would have gone through her. probably in the tree, but there were strike marks in the wall to the doorway to her house as well. >> that fact, that was obviously known to the d.a.'s office in advance would probably explain why mr. darling is charged with depraved indifference rather than intentional murder, while he didn't intend to kill the little girl in question. if he intended to kill somebody else and then accidentally killed a third person, it still can be prosecuted in many jurisdictions as intentional murder. on the other hand if he was simply shooting, not really paying attention to where he was aiming, bullet hits a tree, ricochets and kills somebody, it still can be prosecuted as murder. are they using both intentional and depraved heart or just opraved? >> just depraved here. >> did the testimon