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Following a jury trial, Brandon Donnell Lake was found guilty of felony murder and aggravated assault in connection with the shooting death of Jermaine Scurry.1 On appeal, Lake contends, among other things, that the trial court erred by charging the jury before closing arguments took place and by admitting improper impeachment evidence at trial. We affirm.

1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict, the record reveals that, in the late evening on February 15, 2009, Lake and several of his friends attended a nightclub in Screven County, Georgia. Shortly after arriving at the club, Lake and one of his friends, Byron Milton, assaulted Scurry in the nightclub parking lot because Lake believed Scurry had been involved in an earlier altercation with Lake’s cousin. Lake pulled a gun and struck Scurry’s face, after which Scurry broke away and ran from Lake. Lake chased and fired his gun at Scurry, who was struck by a bullet and died from his wounds. Lake and Milton fled the scene in Lake’s car and were apprehended shortly thereafter by pursuing law enforcement officers.

 
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