A Houston woman is awaiting sentencing in the shooting of a man that was captured on Facebook Live in April 2018.

State District Judge Jesse F. McClure III on Monday heard testimony from several witnesses at the scene, including survivor Devyn Holmes.

Cassandra Damper, 27, has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and tampering with evidence in the April 1, 2018, incident and could receive as little as probation for the offense, attorneys said.

Police said that Damper, Holmes and a friend were playing with guns in a car parked at a Museum District gas station when she discharged one of the weapons.

Damper called 911 and eventually confessed to authorities, but has maintained that the shooting was accidental and a bullet was never intended to leave the firearm. The event was captured on a video streamed to a group on Facebook, police said, and it went viral.

Holmes survived the gunshot wound to the head, his family testified. He was hospitalized for months before moving to a rehabilitation facility, and he returned home around December 2018.

Doctors don’t believe Holmes will ever be able to walk again. He had to re-learn how to speak and regain the use of his neck and hands, he said. The father of one is also in a wheelchair and is slowly regaining the use of the left side of his body.

“I have to ask for permission to do anything,” Holmes said. “This is not me at all.”

Damper has meanwhile suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, a psychiatrist testified. She is not a violent person and is remorseful, he said.

Damper faces between two and 20 years for the aggravated assault charge and from two to 10 years for tampering with evidence. Probation is a possibility because she doesn’t have a felony record, prosecutors said. McClure will determine whether to order concurrent or stacked sentences.

Testimony is expected to continue Tuesday, Dec. 17.

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