Strickland was convicted of killing Mollie Olguin and severely injuring her girlfriend Kristene Chapa in a park in Portland. In the lawsuit, Chapa is asking for $500M for punitive damages and medical treatment.
Will be quick and easy. i can feel, like, my heart beating so fast. i m like, man, i want my mom. and that s when i m just, like, praying, please, god, don t let me die, please. did mollie say anything? we both asked each other if we were okay, and that was the last thing we asked, we both asked each other. that s when kristene says she was raped. but the ordeal wasn t over. he had the gun pointed at us still, and he made me put duct tape over mollie s mouth and her eyes, and i had to do the same to myself. i was already at the stage like i m going to die, like, this is it. and i hear the gun go off, and then i went black, and like everything went black. kristene s remarkable physical recovery turned out to be the easier part. i come out here for the anniversary of the shooting for mollie s birthday, and, like, for the day we met. this is not a painful place
I fell to the floor, i just remembered, she s dead, she s dead i was so confused. i was like, what s going on? why happened? a small texas town, two super close friends, and a summer night in the park. they have this lookout, and you could see the harbor bridge lit up. it s really pretty when the stars are out. it was the next morning that
And began to stir. that s an incredible little girl here. i m telling you, she is something else. we asked her questions, she would squeeze our hand. that must have been a wonderful thing to see. it was. for police, the pressure to find the shooter was intense. detective roland chavez hoped kristene, now conscious, would be playing a big part in that, but kristene still could not speak. it was either a squeeze of the hand and then the blinking of the eyes. so chavez kept his questions simple. the first thing we asked her, of course, is did you know the person that did this, and she said no. how tall was he? she described him as about 5 8 , 5 9 . within the first two weeks of her recovery, kristene helped police draw this sketch
To say, isn t it? whatever you want to hear, boss. so it is like a game? very much so a game. he was enjoying this interview. four years after kristene chapa was raped and shot, four years after mollie ogene was murdered next to her, david strickland faced a jury of 12. were you confident, worried. of course i was worried. i felt horrible. i didn t know how it was going to end upcoming out. when you saw mr. strickland for the first time? i didn t know what the think to be honest. i was just thinking, he did this. he wasn t the monster you imagined? no, he wasn t. sometimes those are the scariest people though. prosecutor swift laid out his evidence, from gunshot to snapshot to mug shot. the gun, the shell casings and the gloves. as for the letter, smith told the jury police had found remnants of it on david strickland s computer. you can delete the letter off of your computer, but if