Jury to begin deliberations on Army Ranger murder
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - A Maryland jury is to decide whether a former Army Ranger has committed suicide, after several tours in Afghanistan or if he was killed by his roommate, another member of the troupe elite fighter.
The Montgomery County Circuit Court jury was to begin deliberations Wednesday morning, after hearing closing arguments Tuesday Course, the first step of murder against a supplement of Gary Smith, 25, for allegedly shooting Michael McQueen, in September 2006. The two men had a Ranger Intelligence Unit in Afghanistan.
Smith’s lawyers say McQueen, 22, probably fired once in the temple with a .38 calibre revolver because he was desperate over a break with his girlfriend, his concern for career prospects and beverage drive.
Prosecutors no clear motivation during the test phase for his theory of the crime - that Smith, McQueen shot, he observed that football in the apartment she shared Gaithersburg, then dumping the gun in a nearby lake, in his footsteps.
But Assistant State’s Attorney Robert Hill encouraged and arguments, closing May McQueen Smith shot, because he was angry that McQueen, a man who said Smith umschwärmte Hill, planned to travel. Hill said McQueen was anything but suicidal. He had accepted, higher education, participation in the fair work, often spoke with his family and wanted a lawyer.
Prosecutors again the scene of bloody crime in the section of the carpet and sat in the chair McQueen, when he died. They showed jurors a picture of McQueen’s body, sitting in front of a television set. A bottle of beer and the remote control television are on the table next to his right hand.
“This is a kind of evening for its citizens,” said Hill. “This is not a person commit suicide.”
But Smith’s defenders pictures at the scene able to prove that his request McQueen himself killed. These contain few, one of the experts in forensic science, who said, the nature of the injury McQueen’s blood and lessons learned from the scene was proof that he had killed himself.
Jezic lawyer said Andrew Smith would never harm his friend, much less an injury and fellow member of the Rangers.
“The mere fact, most absurd, in this case, a Ranger Ranger kill,” said Jezic.
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