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September 30th,
2009 - DA Bringing Personal Touch to Attempted Murder Trial News article from Colorado Springs
Gazette Summary
of the Fort Carson 2nd/4th Brigade Combat Team Killings |
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DA Bringing Personal Touch
to Attempted Murder Trial By John C. Ensslin Colorado
Springs Gazette September 30, 2009 After being told to leave a
party, Jose Miguel Barco pulled out a revolver, fired a shot in the ceiling
and began pointing the weapon at everyone, a witness said Wednesday. During Barco’s trial on a
charge of attempted first-degree murder, witness Zachary Tassia testified
that someone told the Fort Carson soldier to put down the weapon and “square
up”, meaning fight with his fists. “I don’t fight,” Tassia
recalled Barco saying. “I kill people.” Barco is accused in an April
25, 2008 drive-by shooting outside a home on Meander Circle that left Ginny
Stefanic, a 19-year-old woman who was six-months pregnant, with a gunshot
wound to the thigh. She and her child survived. On Wednesday, Tassia
identified Barco as the man who fired the gun in the basement of the home
after the host of the party refused to serve him beer and shoved him away
from a keg. As he backed out of the
room, Barco told the host, “I’m going to kill you. I’ll drop you, you big
(expletive)” Tassia testified. A few moments later, Tassia
said he watched Barco get into one of two cars that quickly turned around on
a cul-de-sac and drove back past the house at 3076 Meander Circle. “Get down!,” Tassia said he
shouted to people gathered on the lawn of the house, as he saw Barco point a
black snub-nosed revolver and fire several shots toward the house. Testimony is expected to
continue through the week. One unusual aspect of the trial is that 4th
Judicial District Attorney Dan May is trying the case. May has handled several
sentencing hearings, but this is the first time he has taken a case to trial
since becoming district attorney in January. May said he did it to lend some
experience to the prosecutors handling the case. “I’ve got a very young
staff,” he said. In addition to bringing in speakers for staff training, he
is trying to pair his more experienced prosecutors with younger district
attorneys. External link: http://www.gazette.com/articles/barco-63005-murder-everyone.html |