ALTUS — The jury in the trial against Mark Adam Prentice, who is charged in the Labor Day 2004 shooting of Benny Ceniceros, was to hear closing arguments in the case this morning and begin deliberation.

Prentice, 30, is charged with shooting with intent to kill, a charge to which his co-defendant in the case, John Paul Salomon, has already pleaded guilty.

In two days of testimony, jurors heard from law enforcement officers and several people who were at or near the scene the night of the shooting, including Salomon, Benny Ceniceros and his brother, Guadalupe, who was shot in the buttocks by Salomon on Sept. 7 in the parking lot of the Smoke Shop on East Broadway.

On Tuesday, Floyd Allen, of 601 S. Julian, told jurors he was home with his wife and four of their five children watching videos in the early morning hours of Labor Day 2004 when all of a sudden they heard gunshots that sounded as though they’d been fired from two different t weapons, one of them fully automatic.

Allen said he ran to the door, and saw a car take off to the south. Two men — “Spanish people” — came running across the street by the house headed west, one of them wearing a black and white plaid shirt and a backward baseball cap, the other with a bandana on his head and a “mean looking gun.”

“They was in a big hurry,” Allen said.

Allen said he looked at several photos at the Altus Police Department that day but was unable to identify either of the two men.

Scott Neighbors, 34, who resides at a rehab facility in Norman, was shot in the foot in the barrage of bullets that night, but refused treatment after being tackled on the railroad tracks by police.

Neighbors testified that he didn’t see who fired the shots but he told police at the scene it was Prentice and Salomon because, he said, “John Paul tried to rob us a few days before.” And Prentice? “Because they were always together.”

Attorney Joe Brett Reynolds, who is defending Prentice in the case along with R. Scott Adams, of Adams and Associates of Oklahoma City, reminded Neighbors of the interview he had with detectives the day of the shooting in which neither Prentice nor Salomon were mentioned.

Also, at the preliminary hearing in the case on April 25, Neighbors never mentioned Prentice or Salomon in his testimony.

Other witnesses who have appeared for the state include Lanny Morgan, who “can’t remember” much of what he testified to under oath in April; his girlfriend, Autumn Robinson; Mike Combs, property officer for the Altus Police Department; Altus Police detectives Daniel Myer and Robert McGill; Benny and Guadalupe Ceniceros; John Paul Salomon; OSBI firearms and tools examiner Terrance Hicks; District 3 Drug Task Force agent Sean Tuck; and Stephanie Sanchez, Prentice’s fianc/e, who testified that Salomon was at home with her that morning when police allege he shot Benny Ceniceros.