MOBILE (Alabama) - Michael Woolf testified today that during a fight with his wife one night, he fired one shot behind him to scare him, heard his cry, then to see his son 2 years, spread on the ground.
"We were all two freaking out," Woolf said, testifying in his own defence in his capital murder trial.
Woolf, 32, is charged with killing 30 Angel Woolf and their son Ayden home Schillinger road remorque.Il called 911 to report the shooting of just after midnight on March 5, 2008. ?
When questioned by his defence counsel why he then killed his wife, Woolf said: "I know."
"I have never hurt my son or any child" Woolf said later. "I would not further reduce Ayden".
Prosecutors said that the father had increased obsessed if Ayden was his biological son after learning his wife had extramarital affairs, and he killed intentionally family tonight here.
The defence argued that the boy fire was accidental and Woolf and then killed his wife in a heat of the moment of passion, which would be the lesser charge of manslaughter.
On the witness stand, Woolf initially appears calm, even though he describes the night, his wife and his son died. As prosecutors questioned, his responses grew more tense.
In the weeks before the shooting, a paternity test has proved more than 99% certainty that Woolf was, in fact, the father of the boy earlier testimony.
Woolf said that he knew Ayden was his son, but he needed proof on paper.
Leaving the test setup, Woolf asked employees to pray for him, according to the testimony of.
"Why did you to pray them for you?", asked the Deputy Prosecutor Jo Beth Murphree.
"Why not?Woolf said."" This is good prier.Il is good to see people pray for you ".".
"Is it because you know that you are at the edge of the murder of your family?"Request Murphree.
"No," Woolf replied.
In the meantime, he said, he pointed to recent infection of the prostate, his wife, extramarital affairs and that his wife had stopped cooking for him.
The night of the shooting, Woolf said, he returned after autour conducting and quit the marijuana.Plus early in the year, he won a 0.38 caliber revolver in Alabama Village drug case, he said.
He has taken up arms firearms in his car and held in his wide trousers to hide neighbours walked into his home, he said.
Once inside, he said, he dropped his pants and took off his shoes - and his wife came screaming from the bedroom.
He said that she grabbed his arm while he held the gun and leads far behind him blow fire.
After the shooting, he said, he could not manage given blood and there quitté.Avant leave, it touches the legs of his son and the boy stopped moving, he said.
In his interrogation Murphree said the revolver was responsible for three bullets, where the gun could take five balles.lorsque police found the weapon to fire, only two had been fired.
She emphasized her chin and cheeks, where Angel and Ayden had been hit, and it was shot for his wife and one for his son.
"Wet you do you?" she said, referring to the third ball and the intent to kill himself after having killed his wife and son.
Woolf has denied that he planned to do this.
Defence should continue to present its case today in the courtroom Mobile County circuit judge Joseph Johnston.
