MARKHAM | A fingerprint expert testified Thursday that evidence gathered from a Chicago Heights crime scene matches the fingerprints of a Glenwood man who is on trial for the 2004 slaying.

Twenty-eight-year-old Jerry Argue faces four felony counts of murder with intent to kill and injure and four felony counts of murder with a strong probability to kill or injure in the May 10, 2004, fatal shooting 36-year-old Brian Davis, of Steger.

Prosecutors allege that Argue believed Davis was going to drive off without paying, and he shot the victim in the head as part of a drug deal gone wrong at a Western Avenue gas station in Chicago Heights.

Francis Senese, the latent prints group supervisor for the Illinois State Police Joliet Forensic Science Lab, testified that a fingerprint found on the outside of Argue's car matched an ink print taken from Argue's right middle finger.

"They were made from the same source of skin," he said.

In a Power Point presentation before the jury, Senese enlarged sections of the finger prints to show the matching swirls and traits.

Watching the presentation, Argue furrowed his brow and raised his eyebrows.

Argue, who has pleaded not guilty, has also admitted to the shooting, Cook County state's attorney's office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton said in a telephone interview Wednesday.

Outside the courtroom, Argue's attorney Connie Jordan said there were no witnesses to that statement other than a Chicago Heights police officer.

"We are contesting that never happened," she said. "Under Illinois Law, you are supposed to videotape (a confession). It was never taped, written or signed by Jerry. ... For something as serious as a murder, that's why the law was passed."