“I saw my friend get murdered,” trial witness testifies

“I saw my friend get murdered,” prosecution witness testifies
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24 February 2015..lrm

Prosecution witness Richard Bagwell told an Oconee General Sessions jury that he saw Evan Tyner “disappear” the early morning of July 9, 2013—the day the 21-year old friend died of a buckshot pellet from a shotgun. By disappear, Bagwell explained, Tyner fell to the ground near the Westminster area intersection of Mount Pleasant and Blackjack roads. But when Bagwell said, “I saw my friend get murdered. I was delirious,” Public Defender Wilson Burr asked if the deliriousness could be traced to a methamphetamine influence. Shane Adam Burdette went on trial today charged with Tyner’s murder. By the lunch break, the prosecution had presented six witnesses—including Lisa Honea, a responding emergency medical technician, who quoted Burdette at the scene as saying, “I throwed it off and it went off.” When asked by Deputy Solicitor David Wagner to interpret Burdette’s remark, Honea said she understood to mean the gun fired after he threw it.