dave.phillips@oakpress.com; Twitter: @dave phillips1 Testimony from police and a paramedic ruled an abbreviated day two of the Sandra Layne trial Thursday afternoon. Oakland County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Paul Walton called four witnesses during the afternoon-only session in the trial against Layne, 74, accused of shooting and killing her 17-year-old grandson, Jonathan Hoffman. First up was paramedic […]
911, what s your emergency? i ve just been shot. what? i ve just been shot. where are you at? okay, how did you get shot? my grandma shot me. my grandma and grandpa shot you? my grandma. i m going to die. 2 1/2 minutes later, while he was still on the phone, hoffman was shot again. sandra layne will be sentenced on april 18th and she is not free on bond between now and then. you know, this has been the theme of the jodi arias case lies. just so many lies. yesterday, the psychologist who was hired by the defense testified that the admitted killer even lied to him when she was being tested for ptsd. have a listen. why are you writing down untruths? because this was her perception at the time. this was her story, what went
you on. the breaking news we had a short time ago of a possible shooter at a minnesota middle school. it turned out to be a hoax. a 911 call led to a lockdown at the new prague middle school and police are on the scene, but they have found no sign of any shooter nor any trouble, according to our affiliate stations. always good to be able to report that, despite it being a hoax. also, this 75-year-old michigan woman we told you about yesterday, who shot and killed her 17-year-old grandson, supposedly in self-defense, was convicted. and just a few hours after we brought this story to you, the conviction, second-degree murder. sandra layne faces 12 to 20 years in prison for the killing of jonathan hoffman. she shot him six times over the course of six minutes. she fired ten times. it all happened in the home that they shared near detroit. she testified that her grandson was high on drugs and was attacking her when she went for her gun. but then the jurors heard jonathan s phone call to
0 career in corrections. he was, what, two years on the job in colorado, having been lured from another state? yeah, he was he worked in missouri for about 30-some years. he was the number two there, in their prison system. and governor hickenlooper said, he lured him away, and convinced him to come and work here. and i ve been speaking with a few sources on background this morning, ashleigh, and every single person has just had wonderful things to say about him. he s not been a controversial figure. this is not somebody who s been in the news or that any big controversies have been attached to. so that s one of the another reason why investigators are looking at some direct, you know, link, to something that s happened to somebody in the prison system. again, it s early, but that s where they re looking at. to that end, the prison system is not small. no state s system is small, but colorado, the system he was overlooking, the department operated 20 adult prisons, and all of t
how many times did you shoot the gun? i don t know. i think i don t know. the prosecution knows the answer to that question. sandra layne shot the gun ten times over a course of six minutes. she hit her grandson six times. in self-defense, she says that hoffman spent much of those six minutes on the phone with 911, but listen to the call. 911, what s your emergency? i ve just been shot. what? i ve just been shot. where are you at? okay, how did you get shot? who shot you? my grandma shot me. your grandpa or grandfather shot you? my grandma. i m going to die. well, if that person were attacking you and you shot him in fear of your life, you might stop shooting at that point when you hear those words, but hoffman s grandmother did not