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Eric Sears, Mr. Hemphill's attorney, used the district attorney's failed prosecution of Mr. Morris to question their new narrative.
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"That man in the sweater Mr. Hemphill came back to the scene with a firearm, " said Assistant District Attorney Adam Oustatcher.
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Authorities have the sweater and said Mr. Hemphill's DNA was found on it.
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Police later obtained a 2011 warrant to get Mr. Hemphill's DNA, prosecutors said.
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Darryl Hemphill, 34 years old, was indicted at Bronx Supreme Court on second-degree murder charges in the death of David Pacheco Jr.
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The remains of the shuttle's crew were found near Hemphill, along with the nose, part of the landing gear and much of the cabin.
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Authorities originally charged Nicholas Morris, a friend of Mr. Hemphill's, with the death, but the case ended with the judge declaring a mistrial in 2008.
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They now charge that moments before the gunfire, Mr. Hemphill wearing a bright blue sweater had been in a fistfight a block away from the shooting scene.
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Hemphill's VFW hall was quickly turned into a dining hall for the search teams, and it will host lunch for the guests at Friday's ceremony.
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Police arrested Mr. Hemphill Tuesday at the Cary, N.
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The prosecutor went on to charge that Mr. Hemphill then fled the scene and discarded the sweater at the home of an unnamed co-conspirator, before fleeing first to Brooklyn and then North Carolina.
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One of them is Hemphill, Texas, about 170 miles north of Houston, where a roadside monument and a museum commemorate the disaster and the volunteers who combed the surrounding woods for pieces of the spacecraft.
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