"I have determined that the state cannot disprove the defendant s self-defense claim at this time," a prosecutor wrote in a motion to dismiss the homicide charge.
In March 2022, DeForest police looking into a parking complaint instead found an armed man with a plan to rape and kill a former high school classmate and her family.
Devonte Gafford, 32, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide as a party to the crime for the death of Devon Grant, a week shy of his 21st birthday in a close-range shooting on July 13, at the Harmony apartments in Madison. Gafford s trial began Tuesday with testimony from the victim s mother, who witnessed the gunfire that killed her son.