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The murder trial of former Northern Arizona University student Steven Jones began April 5, 2017, in Coconino County Superior Court in Flagstaff. Jones is accused of fatally shooting one student and wounding three others. Tom Tingle/azcentral.com
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The prosecution makes its opening statement April 5, 2017, in Steven Jones’ trial in the NAU shooting.
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The defense’s opening statement April 5, 2017, in Steven Jones’ trial in the NAU shooting.
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Coconino County Superior Court Judge Dan Slayton hears arguments from the prosecution and defense on evidence in the Northern Arizona University shooting case.
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Steven Jones weeps as he is granted conditional release until trial.
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NAU Shooting Suspect In Court. Steven Jones, 19, appears in court in February 2016 in the Oct. 9, 2015 shooting on the NAU campus.
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NAU police video showing the moment Steven Jones was handcuffed and detained. NAU student Colin Brough, 20, died at the scene. Three other students, Nick Piring, Nick Prato, and Kyle Zientek, all 20, were wounded.
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This 911 call was made by Jake Mike, a friend of accused NAU shooter Steven Jones. The two were together in the early morning hours of Oct. 9 when the shooting began on the Flagstaff campus.
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This call to Northern Arizona University Police Department was made from inside a residence hall near the scene of the shooting.
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911 calls into NAU Police after shootings
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Doug Brough, Colin Brough’s father, talks about his son, October 10, 2015, outside NAU’s Mountain View Hall, the site of the shooting Flagstaff, Arizona
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Candlelight vigil Friday evening for Colin Brough at Northern Arizona University.
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NAU students and the surrounding community held a prayer vigil Friday night.
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Students react to finding out the suspect in the shooting, Steven Jones, lived in their dorm on Northern Arizona University campus.
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Witness Dion Harris at Flagstaff Shooting
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Arizona Republic Reporter Dennis Wagner reports from the scene of a shooting at Northern Arizona University that left one dead and three others injured.
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NAU freshman held in shooting that left 1 student dead, 3 wounded
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A shooter opened fire on Friday at Northern Arizona University’s Flagstaff campus, the school said. One person was killed and three people were injured.
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According to Everytown For Gun Safety, there have been nearly 100 school shootings since the tragedy at Sandy Hook.
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Steven Jones’ NAU murder trial begins
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Student killed in Flagstaff shooting had a blood-alcohol content of 0.285 percent when shot, County Medical Examiner Lawrence Czarnecki said in court Friday.
FLAGSTAFF — Testimony from a medical examiner Friday in the Northern Arizona University shooting trial showed that the muzzle of Steven Jones’ gun was no more than two feet away when it fired at the first victim, Colin Brough, who died of his wounds.
Jones, 20, is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated assault for the Oct. 9, 2015, shootings on NAU’s campus that left one student dead and three others wounded. Jones is claiming self-defense.
County Medical Examiner Lawrence Czarnecki took the stand in Coconino County Superior Court and testified that Brough, 20, had a blood-alcohol content of 0.285 percent. When Jones’ defense attorneys did the math, the medical examiner agreed that Brough may have consumed 14 drinks within a short period of time.
“It could possibly represent that much,” he said.
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Brough also tested positive for an active ingredient of marijuana and a lower-than-therapeutic level of the anti-anxiety drug commonly called Xanax. Czarnecki did not speculate on the interaction of the drugs.
The cause of death, according to Czarnecki, were two gunshot sounds, one of which severed Brough’s vena cava and aorta, causing him to bleed to death very rapidly.
The defense and jury on Friday focused on the trajectory of the bullets in Brough’s body.
Brough was said to be on a rise considerably higher than where Jones was standing with his gun. And yet the trajectory of both bullets went from up to down, suggesting Brough was leaning forward when he was shot.
Some witnesses have testified that Brough lunged or rushed at Jones. Others have said he did not. Prosecutors have suggested that perhaps Brough tripped and fell to explain his forward movement and the downward motion of the bullets.
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Czarnecki said the other explanation for the trajectory was if gunman were shooting from above.
Witnesses have placed Jones and Brough as far as five to 15 feet apart when the shooting took place.
But Czarnecki said stippling, or gunpowder residue, around a gunshot wound to Brough’s shoulder indicated that the muzzle of the gun was in the range of two inches to two feet when the gun fired.
The other bullet went through a T-shirt into Brough’s chest, making it impossible to determine if there were stippling.
Czarnecki also noted fresh abrasions to Brough’s face, legs and hands that he could have suffered as he fell into the gravel or pavement after being shot.
What Czarnecki didn’t explain, and attorneys didn’t ask, was why Brough had multiple older scratches and bruises that were healing on his temples and jaw, back and legs that he had sustained at some earlier time.
More than 35 witnesses are expected to be called during the trial, which is in its second week.
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