Jury sees revealing new photos in Central Fresno murder trial

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- On Thursday, a Fresno County assemblage saw body-camera video taken from wrong the infirmary pursuing a deadly 2023 clang successful Central Fresno.

"So, what happened?" an serviceman asked Shane Shahan.

Moments earlier, melodramatic video shows him speeding astatine astir 80 miles per hour. He blew done a reddish light, slamming into a Hyundai.

Investigators accidental it killed rider Jesse Espino.

"He was decidedly upset," Fresno Police Department Officer Zack Chastain said astir Shahan. "Resentful. I don't retrieve if helium was crying."

The clang happened successful the aboriginal greeting hours arsenic Shahan drove to his occupation astatine a operation site.

"In my questioning with him, helium said helium had had a whiskey the nighttime before," Chastain said.

Shahan has a past of alcohol-related driving crimes, and courts enactment him connected notice, telling him that if helium continued to thrust portion nether the power and idiosyncratic died, helium could beryllium charged with murder.

Prosecutors claimed Shahan had intoxicant and marijuana successful his system, and they followed done connected charging him with murder. They did not complaint him with driving nether the influence.
"Do you spot bloodshot eyes successful that picture?" defence lawyer and Action News Legal Analyst Tony Capozzi asked Chastain.

"No, they look white," Chastain said.

Capozzi presented the assemblage with respective images of Shahan taken soon aft the crash, making the lawsuit that Shahan was not nether the influence...

"Do you spot bloodshot eyes there?" Capozzi asked astir different photo. "They're a small red," Chastain said.

"Do you cognize if that's from the accident?" Capozzi clarified. "I don't know," Chastain replied.

The serviceman aboriginal said helium did not retrieve smelling intoxicant arsenic helium interviewed Shahan, though prosecutors said Shahan's rima was blocked by a facial disguise successful the hospital.

A execution condemnation could bring a imaginable beingness situation sentence.

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