In a Baltimore courtroom Monday, Keith Davis Jr. stared across a table at the hack driver prosecutors allege he tried to rob at gunpoint before being shot himself by city police last summer. Charles Holden, 60, who has glaucoma, stared back, repeatedly blinking and widening his eyes to get a good look at the 24-year-old seated before him. Assistant State's Attorney LaZette Ringgold-Kirksey asked Holden — her first witness in Davis' trial after months of delays in the case — i

The local newspaper ran a story based on the police reports, which said that the man, Keith Davis Jr, had robbed an unlicensed cab driver with a pistol and fled from the police to a garage, where he refused to give up his weapon and was shot at numerous times before being hit in the arm and the face and surrendering. But unlike many victims of police shootings, Davis lived to provide his own account of what happened that morning – he says he didn’t have a gun and was misident