“He took step after step after step after step until he couldn’t take another step again, until his body landed on the ground of that parking lot motionless, beyond the defendant’s car entirely,” Bozeman said. Video footage from the store’s surveillance cameras played for the jury shows Fournier running away from the driver’s window past the back of the car when his body drops to the pavement. “This is important,” she said, “because this tells you that once that bullet entered the body, he wouldn’t have been able to make any purposeful movement.” One of the bullets fired into Fournier’s back hit his spinal cord, paralyzing him, according to medical experts, Bozeman said. “So what does the defendant do next? He reaches for his gun, his loaded gun that he spent the afternoon shooting, his gun that makes him the bigger man to this person who just made him feel small,” she said. Marc Pharr saying the initial call came in Saturday at. City of Auburn police officers were dispatched to an apparent domestic dispute, with Police Public Information Officer Sgt. Lead residue found on Dalphonse’s car suggests the muzzle of his gun was in the area of the metal support post dividing the front and back doors of his Volkswagen Golf hatchback and the front of the back passenger window, Bozeman told the jury.īut it was “enough to embarrass him in front of his best friend who was riding in the passenger seat with him, “ Bozeman said. A domestic dispute in Auburn ended with one man dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and three female victims suffering from gunshot wounds of unknown severity. She said Fournier was shot twice in the back by Dalphonse, 23, of Auburn, who had a loaded handgun in a holster clipped to the front of his waistband.
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On the first day of Gage Dalphonse’s trial Wednesday, attorneys on both sides previewed the evidence they plan to present in the Capital Judicial Center.ĭuring her opening statements, Assistant District Attorney Katherine Bozeman told a jury of nine women and five men, including two alternates, that the “evidence comes together to tell you that the defendant held his firearm outside of his car window shot Jean Fournier in the back as he retreated and ran for his life.” AUGUSTA - The 2019 fatal shooting of 41-year-old Jean Fournier of Turner in the Auburn Walmart parking lot was murder or self-defense, according to competing theories of the case.
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