Opinion ID: 2232885
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Heading: Gini Eatan

Text: A neighbor of Vanlue's, Gini Eatan, had a partially obstructed view of these events from her nearby trailer. She offered a different account. Eatan went to sleep around 10:30 p.m. but was awakened approximately two hours later by a banging noise followed by a gunshot. She heard a second shot and looked out her window toward Vanlue's trailer. Eatan saw a man she later identified as Jamison beating the defendant with a shotgun in Vanlue's doorway, telling him to [s]tay laying down. Record at 769. Jamison disappeared briefly from view, reappeared in the doorway, and then resumed the assault. Jamison put the shotgun to his shoulder, fired one level shot towards the living room in Vanlue's trailer, and beat the defendant again with the butt of the gun. This third shot was the first Eatan testified she had actually seen. She was able to view the altercation because she was no more than twenty feet from Jamison, several lights were on in Vanlue's trailer, and the door to the trailer remained open. Eatan also testified that she saw a shadow through the venetian blinds on one of the windows and that Jamison fired the shot in the direction of the shadow. After this shot, Eatan saw the shadow drop and heard what she believed to be a female voice utter a very short muffled scream. Record at 812. Jamison pumped the gun and pulled the trigger again, causing a click of the trigger but no discharge. Eatan never saw a shot discharge through Jamison's legs.