The Latest: Officer explains stop that ended in driver death

(AP) — The Latest in the manslaughter trial of a Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a black motorist during a traffic stop (all times local):

A Minnesota police officer charged with manslaughter in a black motorist's death is explaining how he came to pull the man's car over.

Yanez testified Friday that he was on the alert for two suspects following a convenience store robbery in the St. Paul suburb of St. Anthony.

A Minnesota police officer charged in the shooting death of a black motorist says he was "scared to death" in the split-second before he opened fire.

Officer Jeronimo Yanez says he thought he was going to die, and his wife and baby daughter's face popped into his mind just before he fatally shot motorist Philando Castile.

Yanez is charged with manslaughter in the death last July of Castile, a 32-year-old school cafeteria worker, in a St. Paul suburb.

A Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a black motorist says he saw a gun before firing.

A use-of-force expert says the key question in a Minnesota police officer's trial for killing a black motorist shouldn't be about whether the officer ever saw the man's gun.

A use-of-force expert says a Minnesota police officer used reasonable force when he shot and killed a black motorist last year in the seconds after the motorist told him he was carrying a gun.

The attorney for a Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a black motorist during a traffic stop says he plans to call his client to the witness stand Friday.

Testimony continues Friday in the manslaughter trial of a Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a black motorist who informed him he was carrying a gun.

A defense expert testified Thursday that St. Anthony Officer Jeronimo Yanez used "justifiable deadly force" when he shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop in a St. Paul suburb last July.