More testimony in Arrega case points to motive by Shavonne Hammers

Once again, my colleague Paul Mann helped me out with a synopsis of today's proceedings from the Jason Arreaga jury trial.

Angelique Eller testified and agreed with Ms. Holmquist's characterization of Shavonne Hammers as "volatile."

While the group was smoking meth in Eller's trailer shortly after Arreaga, Shavonne Hammers and Carly Michaels arrived at about three in the morning, Eller said that Shavonne Hammers talked repeatedly about confronting Angel Tully and Harley Hammers but she was ambivalent about it, one minute angry, the next conciliatory.

Secondary witnesses today were James Hopkins, Harley Hammers' uncle, who found Harley Hammers dying in his pickup truck and two neighbors, Betty and Wayne Graham, who, except for Jerry Bachus, were the first to arrive on scene and found Tully's body. It was Wayne Graham who covered Tully with the black jacket he found in the Honda Civic. Betty Graham was a 20 year medical assistant, she took Tully's pulse and concluded she was dead. Betty Graham appealed to Bachus to cease CPR but he was in shock and carried on.