Family creates AI video to depict Arizona man addressing his killer in court |

Family creates AI video to depict Arizona man addressing his killer in court

By Liliana Salgado and Andrew Goudsward Reuters
May 9, 2025
May 9, 2025

Stacey Wales stands next to a photo of her brother, Chris Pelkey, who died in a road rage shooting in 2021, in Chandler, Arizona — Stacey Wales, 47, stands next to a photo of her brother, Chris Pelkey, who died in a road rage shooting in 2021 in Chandler, Ariz.
Liliana Salgado/reuters

CHANDLER, Ariz. �� A simulation of a dead man created by artificial intelligence addressed his killer in an Arizona court this month, in what appears to be one of the first such instances in a U.S. courtroom.

Made by his family, an AI-generated avatar of Christopher Pelkey spoke in Maricopa County Superior Court on May 1, as a judge prepared to sentence Gabriel Paul Horcasitas for shooting and killing Pelkey in a 2021 road-rage incident.

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