Mar. 15, 2021 5:40p
(WGTD)---Jurors in the Martice Fuller murder trial heard a recording of a 911 call in which a frantic Stephanie Juga--despite being shot--performs CPR on her dying daughter while answering questions from the dispatcher before police arrive.
The recording was played on the first day of Fuller's trial Monday. Because of COVID, it's being held in a makeshift courtroom at the Kenosha County Center at Highways 45 and 50. The trial is also being streamed live on WGTD's YouTube channel. A recording of the day's proceeding is also available.
15-year-old Kaylie Juga was shot five times in her bedroom allegedly by her ex-boyfriend Fuller as he purportedly snuck into the family's home May 9th, 2019. After hearing gunshots, Stephanie Juga emerged from her bedroom and was shot twice herself before retreating to a bathroom, locking the door and calling 911.
Stephanie Juga eventually leaves the bathroom and finds her daughter laying on the floor of her bedroom, bleeding and starting to turn blue. "Is she breathing?" the dispatcher asks. "No she's not," Mrs.Juga says. The dispatcher then tells her how to perform CPR.
The 911 call lasts about 7 minutes before three Kenosha County Sheriff's deputies who were in the area arrive at the home.
Deputy Ron Eckert said he and his colleagues entered cautiously because they believed the gunman could still be inside. He wasn't.
In her opening statement, Deputy District Attorney Angelina Gabriel said it was later determined that Kaylie Juga had been so seriously injured that a team of surgeons had they miraculously appeared immediately at the scene could not have saved her.
Her mother eventually recovered from wounds to the wrist and chest.
Gabriel alleged that Fuller shot Kaylie because he couldn't handle their break-up, and that he blamed her for being expelled from Bradford High School and the school's football team. "He couldn't let go of his anger or his control of her," she said.
Jurors are expected to hear testimony from school staff members and Kaylie's friends about Fuller's abusive and controlling behavior, much of which, Gabriel said, Kaylie had downplayed to her parents.
Gabriel said Fuller had been plotting to shoot Kaylie for weeks, stalking the family home late at night and even directly asking at least one friend for help in carrying it out.
Fuller was arrested a day later after he fled to a relative's home.
In her opening statement, defense attorney Jillian Scheidegger asked the jury to keep an open mind, telling them that they will soon see that the state has not met its burden of proof.
The trial is expected to continue Tuesday morning at 8:30.
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