Prosecution closing argument in the Rick Chow murder trial: Full video

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: "What is the value of a human life?" That's usually posed as a rhetorical question, isn't it? What is the value of a human life? Can we assign a monetary value to a human life, to a human soul? Can we put a price on it like we can a bottle of water, or a bottle of motor oil, or a lampshade, or a fishing boat? Is that possible? Are some lives worth more than others? These are philosophical questions that people have been wondering aloud for ages. Do you remember that feeling of being a teenager? Do you remember what it was like when your body was new and shining? Do you remember that? Do you remember a time before work, and bills, and all the responsibility? Being responsible for other people? Do you remember that feeling? Do you remember what it was like having that long road of life just stretched out before you? And all the possibilities? Not knowing what they were, but just being excited for the ride. Do you remember that? 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If Rick Chow had taken about 17 minutes to review the footage. 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3, 2, 1. Now Cyrus turned from the water cooler. Alice and Andy began asking him if he put a bottle of water in his pocket. [00:13:39] Speaker ?: One dollar. One dollar. 114 pounds. 130 yards. [00:13:43] Speaker 1: 21 grams. Fight or flight. You've heard that term. It's a physiological reaction, right? It's ingrained in us since we were cavemen, I guess, basically. And it is an instinct, it's a reaction that occurs in situations where there is a threat. Okay? [00:14:01] Speaker ?: If Cyrus is a tough guy. [00:14:01] Speaker 1: Right? If Cyrus is a tough guy. Right? [00:14:04] Speaker ?: If Cyrus is a thug. [00:14:05] Speaker 1: Right? If Cyrus is a thug. Right? If Cyrus is a gunslinger. Right? If Cyrus is a gunslinger. Right? If Cyrus is a tough guy. If Cyrus is a tough guy. Right? If Cyrus is a thug. [00:14:18] Speaker ?: Right? [00:14:19] Speaker 1: If Cyrus is a thug. Right? If Cyrus is a gunslinger. [00:14:23] Speaker ?: Right? [00:14:24] Speaker 1: If Cyrus is a gunslinger. Right? If he is that guy. Okay? If he's that guy. Now is the time you'd see it. Now is the time he'd pull that pistol out. Point it. If he was that guy. Right? He's not that guy. He's a child. He doesn't pull out his pistol. He doesn't cuss or disrespect anyone. He collects his backpack. Drops his head. And he walks out. If he was a fighter. Now would be the chance for him to confront anybody. If he ever intended to use the gun. It would have been right here. But this is the moment where cool heads should prevail. Cool reflection should be what happened here. Reflection should have occurred. This is when adults should act like adults. This could have been it. He could have walked off. He would be a kid looking forward to senior year in high school. You have a mother and a father who would still have their little boy. One dollar. One dollar. One hundred fourteen pounds. Seventeen seconds. One second. [00:16:12] Speaker ?: Twenty-one grams. An entire lifetime ahead. [00:16:13] Speaker 1: Unknown potential. Success. Failure. Redemption. [00:16:17] Speaker ?: Decisions. You know the decision Rick Chalamet. It's etched in time now. It plays back like a bad movie. You've seen before. You already know the ending. [00:16:20] Speaker 1: He did what he did, and that's why we're all here today. He did what he did, and that's why we're all here today. [00:16:22] Speaker ?: Thank you. [00:16:22] Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. [00:16:24] Speaker ?: Thank you. [00:16:51] Speaker 1: Let him go. Just let him go. We don't need to be here today. Let the boy go. What have you got to lose? What is the value of human life? As of May 28, 2023, Rick Chalamet owned and operated that gas station for over ten years. This was not his first day on the job. [00:17:49] Speaker ?: It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. [00:18:25] Speaker 1: It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. [00:18:28] Speaker ?: It's not his first day on the job. [00:18:29] Speaker 1: It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. [00:18:36] Speaker ?: It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. [00:18:40] Speaker 1: It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. [00:18:45] Speaker ?: It's not his first day on the job. [00:18:46] Speaker 1: It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. [00:18:51] Speaker ?: It's not his first day on the job. [00:18:52] Speaker 1: It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. [00:18:58] Speaker ?: It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. [00:19:00] Speaker 1: It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. [00:19:02] Speaker ?: It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. [00:19:04] Speaker 1: It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. [00:19:09] Speaker ?: It's not his first day on the job. [00:19:10] Speaker 1: It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. [00:19:14] Speaker ?: It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. [00:19:16] Speaker 1: It's not his first day on the job. It's not his first day on the job. [00:19:18] Speaker ?: It's not his first day on the job. [00:19:19] Speaker 1: For argument's sake there, let's say he had committed the abominable crime of stealing a dollar bottle of water. Let's say he did that, okay? Well, you remember the wall of shame? You remember the testimony about all the pictures all over the store of various people who had been suspected of shoplifting. What we do at the Shell gas station is we take their picture because we have all these cameras that we can get all these pictures from, and then we put it up on the wall of shame. And that's what we do. We shame them. But also, if they come back in, we can confront them. Why don't we put this little boy's picture up there then? I mean, if he stole water, let's just do that. That would have been a better option, right? Or, we got all these pictures. Let's send them into law enforcement. Looking for this guy. And by the way, we know exactly what he was wearing. And by the way, he walked that way down this dead end road. Shouldn't be too hard for you guys to solve. Anything would have been better than this. He chose to chase down an eighth grader. The boy was so terrified that he ran out of his shoe and continued running. The boy was so terrified. He's losing clothing. He drops his phone. He drops his mother's phone. But he continues running. Wouldn't that have been even another great opportunity for them to stop? Listen. We've scared this little boy so bad, he's come out of his shoe. Let's stop the insanity right here. Let's turn around. Let's take our butts back to the Shell gas station. What are we even doing anyway? Why are we doing this? But no. They continue tracking him. Chasing the boy down. And then he takes that hard fall. Hits the ground. What about right then? Wouldn't that have been a good time to be like, We're scaring this boy so bad that he's run out of his shoes. He's lost his cell phones. Now he's hurt himself. We've gone too far. We've gone too far. But no. 130 yards. 114 pounds. 390 feet. 1 second. 17 seconds. 21 grams. Why in God's name are two grown men. One armed. Chasing a child. Because that's what he is. 130 yards. Why in God's name. Montae Bryant. He had to hit the brakes. Because. He didn't want to hit them. They all come running out in front of him. On spring tree. Dead set on catching that boy. He had to put the brakes on. He says he thought it was the police. [00:23:01] Speaker ?: I said. [00:23:02] Speaker 1: Well why'd you think that? He said. Because one of the guys had a pistol. And they were chasing that boy. I thought that was the police. And so. That would have been what Cyrus saw too. He doesn't know why these men are chasing him to begin with. Why they're yelling at him. And now he sees one of them has a gun. And he's wondering. Why are these people chasing me? What are they going to do to me? And he's running. And Devonte Bryant said. He didn't have anything in his hands. Lori Carson pulled up too. Remember her? That's her in that BMW. A grandmother. She recognized immediately. Cyrus was a child. She said he looked frightened. He looked scared. He said it looked like he needed help. He said he didn't have anything in his hands. Kennedy. Jasmine Brawler. They saw him too. He didn't have anything in his hands. All of them had different angles. To observe. [00:24:23] Speaker ?: None of them knew. [00:24:24] Speaker 1: Cyrus. But they were all very clear. The boy had nothing in his hands. He had a backpack over his left shoulder. Which we can see in the video. Trying to hold his pants up while he ran from these men. But he had nothing in his hands. What does a hundred and thirty yards look like? Well, it looks like this. [00:24:52] Speaker ?: The boy was a little bit. The boy was a little bit. The boy was a little bit. The boy was a little bit. The boy was a little bit. The boy was a little bit. The boy was a little bit. The boy was a little bit. The boy was a little bit. The boy was a little bit. The boy was a little bit. The boy was a little bit. 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[00:25:44] Speaker 1: it's a long distance it's too damn long it's 130 yards too long 114 pounds one second one dollar 21 grams Cyrus was shot in his back as he ran away from Rick Chow and Andy Chow he entered his lower back just to the right of his backbone it traveled upwards you see it went through his lungs it entered the right ventricle of his heart came to rest there and that trajectory tells us he was trying to get away to the very end trying to run from danger he died scared he died bleeding to death Rick Chow's face being the last one he saw he died surrounded by strangers he died scared on the side of a road in nowhere America he died young he died because of Rick Chow shot in the back today Rick Chow says well guys I had to do it I had to kill that boy I had to chase him down and I just had to shoot him he says his son yelled gun and he had to shoot he tells you he was justified in doing it and he says well if you're wondering why I shot and killed a child in the back it's because of the doctrine of defense of others that's what he says to you today he was dead wrong on May 28, 2023 and he's dead wrong today okay so what is the law of defense of others there are four elements that the state has to disprove one of them okay but these are what would get you a charge and find that you would be justified in killing somebody based on the law of defense of others if any of these are disproven any one of them are disproven by the state then he does not get that legal justification for killing you understand if you find any of these to not fit for him he does not get the defense of defense of others number one okay I want to be clear he fails right off the bat what is the number one element of defense of others the very first one that he fails miserably Rick Chow and Andy Chow both must be without fault for bringing on the difficulty y'all remember those questions I asked Andy and by the way the other thing y'all get to consider is credibility of witnesses y'all seen people lie before y'all seen people tell half truths y'all seen people waver before in questions they didn't really want to answer y'all seen that before in life y'all have a chance to sit back there and talk about whether y'all found Andy to be a credible witness or not but one thing I asked him is Andy Cyrus is still alive if y'all stay in the gas station right he said yeah you're right but then they decided to ramp it up they brought this difficulty on okay one of his lawyers said well you know Cyrus would be alive if he didn't have a gun and I said you would never have known he had a gun would you if you just kept your butt in the shell station kept doing the work you were doing stay behind the cash register and Rick stay back in the what do you call it your surveillance room back there why don't you just stay back there why are we running 130 yards off our property even after he loses his shoes and his cell phone why aren't we just stopping on the property if we need to see which direction he goes in we see him running up that straight road and we know it's a dead end and we got all these pictures of him now we got his cell phone we got his shoe we got all these pictures of him we got his clothing cell phone shoe why do we bring on the difficulty when we don't have to but right off the bat defense of others fails prong number one a grown man with decades of experience to turn suspicion into pursuit and pursuit into gunfire we fail immediately but if we were to consider going on he fails all four of them let me just walk you through it just to be clear but if any one of them fail he does not get that defense but number two Rick Chow must be under the belief or have a good faith belief that Andy Chow was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury harm we saw that a fall and the after effects of it it was such a violent fall that it led to those wounds to his shin he goes face down into the ground with various wits to sit and then marker AA right there that would be the laser pointer the flashlight we heard so much about that is an interesting marker because you know what that tells us a couple things really it tells us where Cyrus fell and hit the ground but it also along with those wounds to his leg shows us how violent of a fall it was that would be where he hit the ground and the only way this works is if his gun comes out of his hoodie hits the ground so violently it dislodges the flashlight and that's where it came to rest ladies and gentlemen if you are a 14 year old boy and you know you're not supposed to have that gun and you're being chased by people and it spills out the very first thing you're going to do is pick it up and continue running which is exactly what Cyrus Carmack Belton did he was trying to get away but as you see right there that would be where he fell and we know he continued running because his body is found past those two poles but what is further up towards where his body came to rest AV right there is that shell casing that is approximately where Rick Chow stood when he fired the weapon so even after we see where Cyrus fell Rick Chow is still advancing towards him still moving towards where he ultimately came to die I don't know how you describe being in fear of this boy and being terrified of him but even after he falls and you supposedly become aware of a gun that spills out of his pocket you continue to advance towards him how do you say now that you were in fear of him and would a reasonably prudent person have done this would a reasonably prudent person have even left the shell station the answer is no he fails two and he fails three so finally Andy Chow must be shown to have had no other probable way to avoid the danger of death or serious bodily injury than to act the way he did okay I don't understand how you can ever say I'm retreating when you are the one chasing somebody chasing them off your property chasing them 130 yards down that road that you don't belong how do you then say I was retreating no you are advancing you are the one bringing on this difficulty you started it and you're the one who continues it Rick Chow fails all four prongs of defense of others and he fails spectacularly we only have to prove one number one he fails right off the bat I submit to you he fails all four this would be a shot by now you know we spent a lot of time I know it's been boring at times trying to orient you guys with a landscape but it is important really to kind of have a general familiarity with this area we're talking about but if we're looking at this picture which is an evidence y'all seen those poles right there a number of times that's kind of a good marker you've seen this drainage ditch right here on the bottom where his backpack was found that's another good marker behind us would be the shale gas station at Park Lane Road and forward is just the dead end this would be approximately where that laser flashlight attachment would be found and again that's where reason tells us that Cyrus fell and the gun apparently hit the ground hard enough to detach the laser flashlight that's where that was found a little bit further up again past where he fell that means Rick Child is still advancing past where that boy fell and continues chasing him with his gun that's where the case is found right there the green area behind those trees that there's Brad prepared right there that is where we know from the body camera that's where Cyrus comes to rest that's where he dials I mean just on the side of the road nowhere south Carolina shot on the side of the road like a like a dog surrounded by strangers mother not there grandma not there scared of the line murder is in South Carolina statutorily defined as killing of another person with malice aforethought okay what is malice aforethought judge is going to define malice for you this is malice you see this right here y'all see that look at it this is what malice looks like right here is hatred ill will or hostility we know how Rick Chow feels about shop lifters okay he's devoted a large amount of space in his store to advertise shop lifters and identify shop lifters he doesn't like malice is ill will or hostility towards another person is the intentional doing of a wrongful act without just cause or excuse and with an intent to inflict an injury under circumstances of law will infer an evil intent when does malice need to form and when does it need to exist in the mind of Rick Chow judge will tell you it does not malice forth all does not require that malice exist for any particular time before the act is committed but it must exist in the mind of the defendant just before and at the time of the shooting okay therefore there must be a combination of the evil intent the prior intent i.e. chasing a boy up the road with a gun at your side and the act shooting how can malice be shown there are two types of ways it can be shown it can be expressed or it can be inferred they're not different but just the way they may be shown expressed malice is shown when a person speaks words which express hatred or ill will for another or when the person prepared beforehand to do the act which was later accomplished malice can be inferred from conduct showing a total disregard for human life this is malice right here y'all see malice this is what malice looks like shot to the back tells the story better than any witness ever could state must prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt this is the standard of every criminal case from here to seattle all across the u.s. state must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt what does that mean does it mean beyond all doubt does the state have to prove a case that leaves everyone saying I have no doubt about anything anymore no it means that if you have a doubt that is reasonable whether he's guilty or not do you have a doubt that he's guilty if you do is it reasonable is it based on logic if it is then you should find him not guilty that's just the law that's how it's always been but if your doubt as to whether or not he did what he did is not reasonable or your doubt is not really logical you must find him guilty does that mean you have to be 100% certain about everything regarding this case it does not the judge will tell you there are very few things in this world we know with absolute certainty and in criminal cases the law does not require proof that overcomes every possible doubt he's going to say based on your consideration of evidence you are firmly convinced I put that in bold because to me it's the best way to understand beyond a reasonable doubt when you go back there and y'all are talking about issues or what you remember about specifics of the case just ask ask yourself are we firmly convinced let's all take the pull are we firmly convinced of his guilt and if everybody raises their hand then you find him guilty that is how you determine whether or not there's reasonable doubt or whether there's proof beyond reasonable doubt are we all firmly convinced remember those two words he's going to say it twice when he reads those instructions to you firmly convinced so when y'all get back there and y'all say what was reasonable doubt again you say well I remember Dale saying firmly convinced that that was what we have to decide are we firmly convinced Cyrus will forever be 14 years old it'll always be the beginning of summer 9th grade and high school they'll never come he won't get the chance to catch the eye of a pretty girl he won't get to feel rejection either he won't be at the prom with his classmates he won't have a chance to be cool or to take that winning shot he won't have the opportunity to be a loser he'll never get the chance to figure things out he'll never feel his grandmother's kiss on his forehead he won't get to drink that beer when he turns 21 he'll never catch snowflakes on his tongue again he won't get to feel the sun on his face that first warm day of spring he'll never get to find his way in this world that can be so cruel but so beautiful he won't be like this 14 year old boy and look in the mirror and see these wrinkles and this gray hair that this kind of came out of nowhere and be to trace them and think back of the memories and the experiences behind them and forever be 14 alone and scared running up that road trying to get somewhere safe but never making it and solicitor Stephanie and Weston and I we walked that stretch of road on the spring tree a dozen times or more the air it just feels heavier the energy just it's off the tragedy of a life cut short is just burned into the surroundings I can't explain and the question isn't why does a 14 year old have a gun it's why is an armed 57 year old man chasing a boy 130 yards knowing how scared he is and then shooting him in the back you know this is wrong you know it's wrong dead wrong about that water Mr. Chow Rick Chow is dead wrong about this 14 130 yards one dollar one second 21 grams in the early 1900s there was a there was a doctor he thought he could measure the weight of a human soul he thought it was possible to determine the physical weight of a human soul he measured six patients just before and then right after death and in one of them he found something interesting one of the patients he determined there was a difference of 21 grams and so he determined based on that experience that the human soul weighed 21 grams 1 out of 6 very small sample size and it wasn't well documented but still it became a popular concept that the human soul weighs 21 grams we know that's silly today in 2026 what does our spirit weigh does it weigh 21 grams we know that's silly just like we know a human life there's no value you can put on it's worth way more than silver and gold it's worth way more than this you know it ladies and gentlemen you have a decision to make I thank you for your time and attention this last week and then today I thank you there is only one verdict here that speaks the truth there is only one verdict that addresses what this man did and what this man took away one verdict that verdict is guilty that's what I ask you to do find rich child guilty of unjustly taking Cyrus Carmack Belton's life find him guilty that is the only verdict that speaks the truth and speaks to the evidence in this case thank you