Colin Baldridge testifies about Bodhi Tree showing him a snub nosed revolver

Colin Baldridge also remembers Tree saying something to the effect that no one should mess with him. He said Tree had the revolver in his grey sweatshirt. That Tree was highstrung, not stable and very verbally and sexually aggressive with "females" in the house.

Today is the first time someone has testified that they had seen Tree say coarse and sexual innuendoes to Christina. "Cmon baby you want some" and "You want some of that."

Baldridge said that Christina was assertively dismissive of those advances. Marino and Baldridge both testified Sunshine and Christina were seeing each other. Tree was not getting a positive response from any of the women in the house, Baldridge testified. He said he told Tree to leave Christina alone.

Baldridge lived at the Eye Street house from February 2012 to February 2013 and after he moved, he subleased rooms to other people. "When I resided there, there were rules about people staying at the house, " he said. "After I moved those rules became lax." Baldridge said there were more "travelling people." He said he would stop by the house twice a week.

Baldridge said he had known Bodhi Tree  "on and off" since his teenage years. They both lived in Southern Humboldt until they moved to Arcata.

On the afternoon of May 17, Baldridge said he saw Tree at the Eye Street house. Tree had a black eye. "Looked like he had been hit." Baldridge said Tree told him that he "got in a fight with friends."

He said Tree was "wound up", seemed like Tree needed some sleep, seemed "lost" and had a high level of distress. Baldridge said that Tree brought a couple of 40 ounces of beer and that day while listening to music in Baldridge's car, Tree showed him a snub nosed 38 mm revolver.

He said he took Christina to get some food later that afternoon because there was "tension in the house" with all the partying. She wanted to get out of the house, he dropped her off and went to Willow Creek.

At 2:30 he got a call from someone from the house that contacted him. Baldridge said he "went into shock" and waited to make a decision about going to Arcata and went in the next day when law enforcement asked him to come into town.