Abdoulaye Keita appeals from his convictions for several crimes, including murder, stemming from the shooting death of cab driver Emanaul Abunaw.1 Keita contends, among other things, that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence the front cover of a funeral pamphlet that included a photograph of the victim. We affirm. 1. David Manning testified that, on October 11, 2006, he was flying to Atlanta from Las Vegas. Because of an emergency stop of his plane in Arizona, he was separated from his bag, which proceeded on to Atlanta. Manning added that he never gave Keita permission to pick up his bag. The detective in charge of criminal investigations at the Atlanta airport identified photographs of a person approaching a luggage carousel at the airport at 8:01 a.m. on October 11, 2006. The person was wearing the type of clothing —a baseball cap and dark, loose-fitting jeans and jacket —worn by Keita that day. The detective added that freeze-frame photos taken of the taxi cab runway at the airport showed someone approaching a taxi shortly after 8:00 a.m. on October 11 and that the number on the taxi was “0138″ or “three something.” The number of the victim’s taxi was 0132.
Sylvia Fletcher testified that she was following a cab on her way to work shortly after 8:00 a.m. on October 11, 2006. When she was less than a car length behind, she heard a gunshot from the cab. The taxi driver turned around and, with his hands out in a defensive posture, began struggling with the passenger in the rear seat. A second shot was then fired, and the cab veered off the road and down an embankment. Ms. Fletcher stopped at a nearby gas station and called 911. When she was telling the 911 operator what was happening, she heard a third shot. Shortly thereafter, she saw a person walk up the embankment where the cab went over and begin walking down the sidewalk. At trial, Ms. Fletcher could not remember what type of shirt or jacket the person was wearing but did remember he was wearing black jeans. Ms. Fletcher also testified that she was not sure whether the person who walked up the embankment was the cab driver or the passenger, and she was not asked at trial to identify Keita as the person she saw wearing the black jeans. Although Ms. Fletcher testified that she heard a gunshot before the struggle began, a police officer who interviewed her shortly after the incident testified that, in one of her statements to the police, she stated that she saw a struggle before she heard a gunshot.
