The 26-year-old took the stand to describe how his father had phoned him on the night of the murders on June 7, 2021.Īlex, 54, asked his son if he 'was sitting down'. 'He sounded odd and he told me that my mom and my brother had been shot,' Buster testified. The court heard earlier from Buster Murdaugh who testified that his father is 6ft4in. It just makes it very unlikely that a tall person made that shot,' he added. 'You would have to be bending over and have your shooting hand down at or below your kneecap. It would be something other than a shooting position where you were on your feet.' The expert said: 'It puts them in an unrealistic shooting position. Sutton told the court he measured Alex, known by his family as 'Big Red, this morning and his kneecap was 25 inches off the ground. The disgraced legal scion is accused of shooting dead his wife and son at the family's hunting lodge at Moselle on the night of June 7, 2021 He testified about the trajectories of bullets which struck a quail pen under the lean to and the doghouse near where Maggie's body was found The defense presented pictures showing Alex standing at 6ft4in Murdaugh was measured up by the defense in court during a lunch break last week Buster, Maggie, Paul and Alex. In my opinion it's very unlikely fired.' The defense called Mike Sutton, a crime scene expert, who presented a 3D reconstruction with models of shooter between 5ft2in and 5ft4in tall holding a rifle. The expert said it 'makes it very unlikely that a tall person made the shots. He testified that if Alex - who stands at 6ft4in - were to have made the shot his 'shooting hand would have to have been below his knee cap.' Sutton testified that the trajectory of bullets which hit the quail pen and the dog house close to where Maggie's body was found meant that the shooter likely fired from the hip.
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