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Steven Jones, on trial for first-degree murder and aggravated assault for the NAU shooting in October 2015, describes the shooting while testifying on April 20, 2017.
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Nick Prato took the witness stand on April 19, 2017, in the trial of Steven Jones, the former Northern Arizona University student who shot four young men during a melee that spilled onto campus in October 2015.
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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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NAU shooting defendant Steven Jones describes the shooting
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Coconino County Superior Court Judge Dan Slayton plans to hold a hearing at 9 a.m. Thursday to discuss the request for mistrial.
FLAGSTAFF — The judge in the Northern Arizona University shooting trial suspended jury deliberations for the day Wednesday amid concerns that jurors were not given complete information about when defendant Steven Jones first asserted that he acted in self-defense after shooting four students in October 2015.
Jones’ defense attorneys have asked for a mistrial as a result.
Coconino County Superior Court Judge Dan Slayton will hold a hearing at 9 a.m. Thursday at which prosecutors and defense attorneys can argue for or against a mistrial or suggest other remedies — for example, permitting further closing arguments or allowing the jury to hear additional information.
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“The jury cannot be left with the impression that the only self-defense arguments (that Jones made) were made at the police station,” Slayton told the attorneys during a hastily called meeting Wednesday morning. Jurors were seen filing out of the courthouse shortly after the judge concluded the meeting with attorneys.
Jones made similar self-defense statements in the back of the police car minutes after he was arrested, but prosecutors successfully argued before the trial started to keep that information from jurors.
An officer’s dashboard camera recorded Jones saying, “Why did they punch me?” and “Why did they chase me?” Jones also told a student who asked him to put down the gun that he acted in “self-defense.”
During pretrial arguments, the prosecution characterized Jones’ statements to police first-responders as fabricated excuses. And the prosecution claimed they are “hearsay” — that is, secondhand accounts, which are not allowed in court.
Deputy County Attorney Ammon Barker told the judge on Wednesday that the statements he presented from Jones during closing arguments a day earlier were presented in context and “it wasn’t an intentional misrepresentation of the facts.”
Defense attorneys, however, accused prosecutors of “gross and intentional prosecutorial misconduct” for leaving the jury with the impression that Jones did not raise self-defense claims until well after the shootings.
Jones, 20, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of NAU student Colin Brough, and aggravated assault for wounding three other students — Nick Piring, Nick Prato and Kyle Zientek — during a fight that spilled onto campus in the early hours of Oct. 9, 2015.
Jones was punched, ran to his car, removed a gun from the glove box, then walked toward a gathered crowd. He testified that he shot Brough and wounded Piring as they came at him again. Prato and Zientek were shot in a second barrage of bullets moments later.
Jones claimed that he was jumped by others as he tried to administer aid to Brough, and began firing blindly. Prato testified that Jones was looking at him when he fired, and Zientek said he was shot as he tried to run away.
Attorneys made their closing arguments in the case Tuesday after three weeks of testimony. The jury began deliberations Tuesday afternoon.
Prosecutors maintain Jones acted with premeditation. The defense contends he acted in self-defense.
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