Security cameras show defendant’s movements before Dec. 25 shooting, investigator testifies

MASON CITY -- The final witness in the case against murder defendant Lakendrick "Kenny" Mosley spent two and a half hours on the witness stand testifying about video evidence that reportedly shows the defendant in the area near where Montreail Dungy was killed on Christmas morning.

Fort Dodge police Sgt. Caitlin Carlyle was the lead investigator in the Dec. 25, 2022, shooting death of Dungy. She testified that much of her involvement was providing oversight to the other investigators on the case, but she also reviewed hundreds of hours of video surveillance footage.

Carlyle testified that through video surveillance obtained from the Brass Monkey Bar, city of Fort Dodge cameras around downtown, residential security footage in Pleasant Valley and security video from Iowa Central Community College's Crimmins Building, she was able to follow the movements of Mosley and his brother, Darwin Green, in the early morning hours of Dec. 25.

Mosley, 32, is on trial for first-degree murder. He is accused of fatally shooting Dungy, 46, while the victim sat in his own car around 3 a.m. in the 1000 block of 10th Avenue Southwest and that Green, 26, drove the getaway car.

Prior to trial, the defense asked for and was granted a change of venue, so the trial is being held in Cerro Gordo County.

According to Carlyle's testimony, the Brass Monkey footage shows Mosley and Green arriving at the bar around 12:15 a.m. on Dec. 25. Mosley is seen greeting Dungy with a handshake and hug before going outside briefly to attempt to make a phone call and send a text message. He then returns to the bar.

When Mosley and Green left the bar in Green's Toyota Avalon around 1:55 a.m., Carlyle was able to follow their travel through downtown Fort Dodge and into Pleasant Valley with the video from the city cameras and a residential security camera in the valley. Video from the Crimmins Building showed Green's vehicle meeting up with a vehicle occupied by Keyonna Preston and Jermiah Preston, the sergeant testified.

Earlier on Friday, Jermiah Preston testified that he had provided a gun to Mosley minutes before the shooting.

Carlyle testified that other camera footage showed an individual matching the physical description of Mosley, both in stature and in the clothing he was observed on camera wearing at the Brass Monkey just an hour prior. The figure is seen running away from the location where Dungy was shot.

Carlyle testified that the video evidence confirms the cell phone location data that Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation Special Agent Holly Witt testified on earlier this week. According to Witt's testimony, the location data from Mosley and Green's cell phones show the two brothers together in the Pleasant Valley neighborhood shortly before the shooting.

The cell phone data, Witt testified, shows that the brothers separated briefly around 3 a.m., before coming back together. Another witness, Calvina Naylor, testified earlier this week that the shooting happened right about 3 a.m.

Carlyle also testified about using video to track Shakiya Clayton, who is Green's girlfriend and the mother of Dungy's child, and her movements after the bar closed. Carlyle said a black SUV identified as belonging to an individual from Waterloo left from the bar and drove to the Dodger Townhomes near North 22nd Street and Sixth Avenue North. The SUV stayed in the parking lot for a while, before leaving with a red vehicle and traveling in the direction of Pleasant Valley. The vehicles were seen driving west on First Avenue South before turning south on South 12th Street, coming to a stop at the dead end at the end of the street.

"Is it fair to say that that dead end on South 12th Street is a good lookout location for anything occurring in the Pleasant Valley area?" Assistant Attorney General Ryan Baldridge asked.

Carlyle answered that it is.

"Based on your investigation, is it possible that Shakiya Clayton was acting as a lookout for Darwin Green?" Baldridge asked.

"Absolutely," Carlyle answered.

"As he was the getaway driver for the defendant?" Baldridge asked.

"Yes," Carlyle responded.

After Carlyle's testimony, the state rested its case.

In her opening arguments, Assistant Public Defender Laury Kleinschmidt told the jury it is their job to determine what the truth is in this case. Mosley and his girlfriend, Emily Cooper, had come to Fort Dodge from Des Moines on Dec. 24 for a Christmas party and a birthday party, Kleinschmidt said.

"They meet with a group of other people at the Brass Monkey in downtown Fort Dodge," she said. "We know there's a lot of people at the bar. There's out-of-town people at the bar. There's a fight at the bar. We know that people come and go from the bar."

She said that it's not unusual for people to leave the bars when they close at 2 a.m. and drive around the Pleasant Valley area.

"There's a lot of people down there, and Kenny admits that he was down there," Kleinschmidt told the jury. "He went down there, he stopped at his Aunt Vicky's house. At some point he's texting his girlfriend Emily back and forth and they're arguing. He visits his aunt on the other side of town, back across downtown, and then he learns that his cousin Montreail is shot and he doesn't know what that means. He learns later that day that he passed away."

Kleinschmidt told the jury that after a series of interviews and subpoenas and search warrants, Mosley fled Iowa because he was afraid. A warrant for Mosley's arrest was issued on March 22 and he was apprehended in Minnesota on March 24.

"Kenny runs," Kleinschmidt said. "He gets scared, feels targeted."

The defense will begin its case on Monday. The jury is expected to hear from a cell phone data expert who will testify that the location data in this case is not accurate enough to definitively prove where Mosley and Green were during the time before, during and after the shooting.