Prosecution begins to lay out case versus Elias Abuelazam
Posted: 05.08.2012 at 8:29 PM Updated: 05.09.2012 at 10:10 AM
More than a dozen witnesses testify on day one of murder trial
FLINT -- The second day of testimony in the Elias Abuelazam
trial took place on Wednesday with members of the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection.  Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton
delivered his opening statement and called more than a dozen
witnesses to the stand Tuesday, during the first day of the
first murder trial for accused serial stabber Elias Abuelazam.
Abuelazam is accused of killing 49-year-old Arnold Minor in the
early morning hours of August 2nd, 2010.  "He (Abuelazam) lured
him (Minor) close and he brutally stabbed him to death leaving
him to die in a puddle of blood in a gutter on Saginaw Street,"
Prosecutor Leyton said during his opening statement.
Abuelazam's defense attorneys did not give an opening statement,
and could still pursue an insanity defense.  Flint police
detectives testified that Minor was