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Man claims self-defense at murder trial
Proseuctors say suspect took truck from site of shooting, admitted to killing days later
Mark Taylor
Mark Taylor
A few days after shooting and killing a Gainesville man, Mark Antonio Taylor II said from an interview room in Atlanta that he was trying to right a wrong. “Do the right thing,” was his motto, he told the Gainesville police investigator. In that moment and that interview, Taylor was confessing to murdering Charles Weaver, the prosecution said Monday in Hall County Superior Court.