Mr. Culuko's graphic testimony was the first witness description of the shooting since testimony started in Mr. Williams's aggravated manslaughter trial on Feb. 11.
The description of the shooting by Mr. Adnan and Mr. Mahmoud also closely matched that offered by Abdul Jalil, a member of the Fallujah volunteer police who was also wounded in the shootout.
This book's description of the shooting of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas includes the numbers 156 (car wheelbase in inches); 350 (its horsepower); SS-100-X (the car's Secret Service code name); 120 (degrees in the angle it must turn in Dealey Plaza); 12 33 (time when shots were fired); 14 (doctors attending to the dying president); and 12 (bloody red roses stuck to his body).
He gives a detailed description of the shooting, the inquest, and the subsequent civil suit, in his 1996 autobiography Journey to Justice.
Defense lawyers suggested in cross-examination that he fit the description of a man shooting that night, he said.
Based on Victor Williams's descriptions of the shooting, Ms. Timberlake testified, she recorded the shooting in her work log as a suicide.
But one of the men, Jackson, gave a detailed description of how he shot straight at Odek's hut, and at Kony's, but both men managed to storm out of the mud-walled huts and run in the opposite direction.
The jury said it wanted to hear their descriptions of the shooting, which occurred in Mr. Williams's master bedroom, and the few minutes preceding it.
