Day three of the Nancy Crampton Brophy murder trial in Portland went underway Wednesday of last week. In the afternoon session, the jury got to hear more about Daniel's gunshot wounds.
O'Brian had been told at the scene about the water being running when the first responders arrived. That stuck out to him. He talked about point of interest, one of those being blood transfer, which turned out to be from the CPR. He also said that immediately he saw two injuries to Danie's chest and then later two on his back.
In the center of Daniel's chest, there was an entrance wound and to the left on the midline, there was a partial exit wound. On his back, there was an entrance wound and a partial exit wound where the bullet did not come completely out of the skin. O'Brian also noted that there were noticeable defects to Daniel's shirt that corresponded with the bullet wound in the center of his chest.
Michelle testified about how she noticed the defects in the clothing and said how it seemed to correspond with the bullet holes in Daniel's body. She also said how both bullet wounds would have been fatal. She said that the bullet that entered through his back went through the spinal column, spinal cord, through the aorta and then through the heart. The bullet that entered through his chest also went through his heart and then went down and to the left. Michelle also didn't know which bullet wound happened first.
He thought that the homicide call to the school was unusual because it was daytime. He said that he and his partner arrived on the scene around 9:35 a.m. and helped the other detectives oversee the information being gathered.
He said all students at the school that day and students who didn’t show up to class that day were interviewed later.
Merrill said that he checked the building and the surrounding buildings for surveillance video and was disappointed when he found none.
Merrill said that there were no signs of forced entry in the building. He checked to see if anything appeared to be missing and asked school administrators to do the same. There wasn't anything that appeared to be stolen. To Merril his co-workers, there was no obvious motive for murder.
Merrill talked about Daniel's body. He said it appeared he had been shot first on his back, then fallen onto the floor on his back, and then shot in the chest at close range.
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