JENNINGS — Jurors heard the 911 call and viewed autopsy photos Wednesday as the prosecution continued its case against a Jennings woman accused of fatally shooting one man and injuring another.

Rosalyn Faith Breaux, 27, is facing second-degree murder for the shooting death of Jeremy Ardoin and attempted second-degree murder for injuring Nick Coble during an incident in Welsh last June.

Jurors heard Breaux’s frantic 911 call made shortly after the shooting.

“My brother-in-law’s dead,” Breaux told the dispatcher, referring to Ardoin. “He got shot. He’s dead.”

She then tells the dispatcher, “Hurry up. He’s barely breathing.”

When the 911 dispatcher asked who shot him, Breaux responded, “Me. It was on accident. I never used a gun before.”

A second call was also received from neighbor Ramona Peoples. Coble ran to her home seeking help after being shot.

In the recording Peoples tells the dispatcher she has a guy on her porch claiming he got shot.

Lead investigator Aaron Istre and other Welsh police officers have testified that Breaux admitted to the shooting both at the crime scene and later at the Welsh Police Department. However, Istre testified that no matching fingerprints were found on the weapon.

Several other guns, including two other shotguns, were recovered from the residence, but had no role in the shooting, according to Istre.

Istre said a report delivered to him by Zeb Johnson, the chief investigator for the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office, indicated Ardoin died of a “contact wound” from a shotgun indicated by the powder burns on the body and shotgun wadding found in the wound.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Terry Welke contradicted the statement saying the muzzle was six inches to two feet away at the time of discharge.Welke also said it was impossible for anyone to be between Ardoin and the muzzle of the gun because of where the wadding was lodged in the wound.Ardoin’s death certificate listed the cause of death as a shotgun wound and manner of death as a homicide.

Autopsy photos displayed to jurors showed one large entry wound near the front right armpit with multiple small round exit wounds on the rear shoulder.

Welke said toxicology results from a lab showed the presence of amphetamine, a nervous system stimulant, was found in Ardoin’s system.

A toxicology test performed on a blood sample from Breaux shortly after the shooting revealed a variety of different drugs in her system, including methamphetamine and clonazepam, according to Istre.

The trial resumes at 9 a.m. today.

(MGNonline)