The youngest brother of a Bellaire police officer gunned down the morning of Christmas Eve 2012 choked up Thursday as he described to jurors a call from his brother's widow.

"She said, 'Jimmie's been killed in the line of duty,' " Jamie Norman said.

In testimony that lasted just a few minutes, the 49-year-old man said he was "very close" to his brother who always wanted to be a police officer.

Jimmie Norman was killed with business owner Terry Taylor after a traffic stop turned into a high speed chase.

Jamie Norman and Taylor's adult daughter, Courtney Taylor Faigle, were the last witnesses called before prosecutors rested in the death penalty trial of Harlem Lewis III.

Faigle, who lives in St. Louis, described getting a call from her mother.

"She sounded pretty rattled," Faigle said.

Neither family member was cross-examined by Lewis' defense team.

Prosecutors said Lewis, 23, fatally shot the two men as he tried to evade arrest.

Earlier in the day, jurors heard from medical examiners that Norman died instantly after being shot above his left eye at close range. Taylor bled to death in minutes after a bullet hit him in the neck and severed his carotid artery.

Defense lawyers for Lewis called his mother to the stand later Thursday. After a few questions, lawyers for both sides approached state District Judge Mark Kent Ellis, who sent the jury home for the day.

Whether Lewis will testify in his trial, which began Monday, is unclear.

Ellis said he did not know how long the defense case might be, but told jurors to bring a change of clothes in case they are sequestered Friday night. Harris County jurors are often sequestered while deliberating death penalty cases, and rarely in any other case. They are not sequestered until after they hear closing arguments, which could be Friday.