Prosecutors are seeking to put a Harrisburg man behind bars for two lives, saying he donned black clothing and gray gloves before killing a Harrisburg man and an innocent bystander outside a city restaurant in 2022.

But Jeremy Bailey’s attorney spent Tuesday morning analyzing whether or not the man in black was his shooting client, saying the case boils down to the identity of the shooter and mysterious DNA samples linked to the case.

Bailey, 34, is on trial in Dauphin County this week on two related first-degree murder charges. to the shooting of Leonard Quattlebaum, 30; and Nelbenson “Melvin” Sánchez, 39, on August 2, 2022 near 13th and Derry streets.

Bailey found Quattlebaum, his original target, early in the morning at the USA Fried Chicken restaurant. playing a skills game with Brooke Bechtold and shot him, according to Alex McNulty, a prosecutor with the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office, who gave opening statements Tuesday morning.

But he missed and Quattlebaum lunged at him, grabbing Bailey’s cell phone from his pocket, McNulty said. When Bechtold left USA Fried Chicken and took Bailey’s cell phone, Quattlebaum fled to the right and ran away, colliding with Sanchez.

That’s when Bailey fired a second shot, McNulty said. And although he aimed at Quattlebaum, his bullet hit Sánchez on the forehead, killing him. After a fight, Bailey shot Quattlebaum, McNulty said.

McNulty said the killer covered his face and was wearing all black, with the exception of gray gloves, and said police obtained video evidence of Bailey wearing that same suit.

But Corey Leshner, Bailey’s attorney, questioned whether it was Bailey who killed both men.

He said Bailey and Quattlebaum, who called each other “China Street,” were having a “street argument” over who could sell marijuana from their apartment on North Street. Later, an individual with the street name “Supreme” intervened and resolved the problem, according to Leshner, but Quattlebaum started again and “Supreme” did not approve, Leshner said.

Leshner also attempted to find holes in a witness’ identification of Bailey as the gunman. Bechtold, for example, told police that the shooter was light-skinned, according to Leshner. Bailey is black. When Harrisburg City Police Detective Brian Carriere sat Bechtold down to choose a suspect from a photo array, Bechtold chose someone else’s photo, Leshner said.

He later changed his choice, to someone other than Bailey, after Carriere questioned his certainty, Leshner said.

Ultimately, after police continued to question her selection, Bechtold chose Bailey’s photo, Leshner said, commenting that she was “67% sure.”

A jacket police recovered, which they say Bailey wore during the shooting, had DNA samples matching Bailey’s profile on the inside. But Leshner said there were two other DNA profiles collected from inside the jacket that were never identified.

Forensic testing also identified two DNA profiles under Quattlebaum’s fingernails: Quattlebaum’s and a second unknown DNA profile that was “inconclusively Jeremy Bailey’s profile,” Leshner said. Detectives routinely scrape under the fingernails of homicide victims to look for possible traces of their attackers’ DNA.

No one ever investigated Supreme as a suspect in Quattlebaum’s murder, Leshner said.

“Please do not judge this book before you have read the last page,” Leshner told the jury.