BRYAN, Texas — The trial has begun for Larry Bollin, the man accused of the deadly 2021 mass shooting at the Kent Moore Cabinets manufacturing facility in Bryan, Texas, according to KBTX News.

KBTX reported that testimony in the murder trial began Tuesday, July 15, with "emotional and graphic accounts from local law enforcement and a former coworker."

Bryan Police Officer Steven Brown described sprinting into the building during the shooting, saying he was focused on stopping the ‘killing and dying.’

Sergeant Brent Snyder, Bryan Police Department, testified that the floor of the cabinet shop was "slippery with blood and the lifeless body of 40-year-old Tim Smith." Sgt. Snyder and Kent Moore Cabinets' coworkers aided fellow employees, performing CPR on those injured. 

A lawyer for Bollin said his client was harassed by his colleagues before killing one man.

On April 7, 2021, around 2 pm, Bollin is alleged to have gone on a shooting spree targeting co-workers at Kent Moore Cabinets' (number 82 on the FDMC 300) Texas manufacturing plant. One person was killed and five others were injured.

After a manhunt, Bollin was apprehended 30 miles from the cabinet plant in the town of Iola, where the suspect had a home, Bryan police say. One police officer, Texas DPS Sergeant Juan Tovar, was shot while in the eye while attempting to apprehend Bollin. He was shot in the eye, and during his testimony, the officer showed the courtroom his injury to his eye, "plus his glass eye," reported KBTX.

Killed in the shooting was 40-year-old Timothy Smith, was killed, according to the Bryan Police Department, Smith was a Bryan resident. Four others were transported to a local hospital in critical condition, officials say. A sixth person suffered a minor injury.