Testimony in Jussie Smollett's trial will continue on Wednesday, after jurors on day two of the trial were shown security footage of Smollett doing a 'dry run' two days before his alleged hate crime attack.
On Tuesday, jurors were shown footage of Smollett walking near the scene of the alleged attack with brothers Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo on January 27, 2019.
The brothers are then seen going to the Crafty Beaver for rope, a beauty supply store for masks and hats and a bank to deposit the $3,500 check Smollett paid them to commit the act.
The brothers paid their bill at the beauty supply with a $100 bill Smollett gave them, the Chicago Tribune reported.
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Actor Jussie Smollett asks photographers to move back as he arrives with his mother Janet (right) and sister Jurnee (left)
Actor Jussie Smollett (center) arrives to the Leighton Criminal Courthous with his mother Janet (left)
Brothers Olabinjo Osundairo (right) and Abimbola Osundairo (pictured in 2020)
Smollett's attorney asked Detective Michael Theis if a hot sauce bottle (pictured) was used to contain the bleach used on Smollett, to which Theis replied 'yes'
Chicago Crime Scene Investigators examine a Chili Habanero hot sauce bottle with some form of liquid in it
Actor Jussie Smollett (pictured) arrived Wednesday at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse for day three of his trial in Chicago
Camera footage also showed Smollett pick the brothers up in an alley on Jan. 25, four days before the Jan. 29 attack.
Defense attorneys for Smollett also questioned a detective over a hot sauce bottle that smelled of bleach that was found at the scene by a New York Post reporter a week after the alleged hate crime occurred.
The actor told police that his attackers used racist and homophobic slurs, wrapped a rope around his neck and poured an 'unknown substance' on him. Police say Smollett, who is Black and gay, told detectives the attackers also yelled he was in 'MAGA country'
Smollett's attorney Nenye Uche asked lead detective Michael Theis on Tuesday if a hot sauce bottle was used to contain the bleach used on Smollett, to which Theis replied 'yes' but added that police weren't the ones who found the evidence, the New York Post reported.
'This was an investigation you were taking seriously, correct?' Uche asked the detective on the stand, to which Theis replied 'yes.'
Theis then confirmed that a reporter was the person who found the bottle at the scene.
The prosecution objected to Uche's inquiry into if the Post reporter was yelled at when she notified Chicago police about her discovery and asked the detective if officers 'were upset she found the bottle.'
'The journalist found the bottle because nobody looked for it!' Uche said before the prosecution objected once again.
The objections were sustained by judge James Linn and Uche rested his case and the jury then broke.
A close up of the bottle of hot sauce that detective Theis confirmed was found by a reporter, not police
A Chicago Crime Scene Investigator photographs a bottle of hot sauce that may have been overlooked by police when they first looked over the crime scene
'Jussie Smollett is a real victim,' attorney Nenye Uche (center, pictured in August 2021) said during opening statements Monday
Special prosecutor Dan Webb arrives in court on Wednesday morning ahead of the third day of Jussie
