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Man on trial in midday attack in downtown parking garage

By Steven Kreytak | Austin American Statesman | Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 11:10 AM

Jerry Epps said he was returning from lunch with a colleague one day last year when he heard screaming and screeching in the parking garage of his downtown office building.

“It sounded like an animal or something getting caught in a fan,” Epps told prosecutor Geoffrey Puryear before a Travis County jury today.

Moments later a woman came around a corner and toward him with blood on her face and hands.

“She was, you know, compressing a wound on her head,” said Epps, who works as a lawyer, “and appeared to me at least to be in shock as she was coming toward me.”

Epps said he and his colleague, Tini Nguyen, saw another person flee into a different part of the garage. 

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