STORY: "Camm trial 9/25: Second uncle testifies about Camm's call for help," by reporter Gordon Boyd, published by WAVE 3 News on September 25, 2013.
GIST: 'Nelson
Lockhart expected September 28, 2000 to be little different from any
other Thursday. It was his assigned day to watch over his elderly father
at his Georgetown home, directly across from the house of his nephew,
David Camm. His world, and Camm's, would change shortly after 9:30 p.m.
when Camm pounded on the kitchen door. "I hear David screaming at the top of his lungs, ‘Nelson, Nelson,
come quick, something's happened to my kids,'" Lockhart told a Boone
County jury Wednesday morning. Lockhart is the fourth witness the defense has called in his nephew's
third trial for the murders of his wife Kimberly, 35, son Bradley, 7,
and daughter Jill, 5. Lockhart had been on the phone with his brother,
Sam, to whom he relayed Camm's plea. Because he left so quickly Lockhart
was still barefoot when he followed Camm and found him in his garage. "When I see David, he's down over Brad, doing CPR," said Lockhart
said as he wiped tears away. "He's down on the floor, yelling
‘breathe.'" "I see Kim laying - laying on the floor, on her back, a pool of blood
around her head," Lockhart continued slowly. "I asked about Jill. David
says she's in the car." Lockhart told jurors he climbed into Kim's Bronco on the driver's
side to check on his grand niece, and found her slumped in the rear
passenger seat. "I called her name, I touched her. She was cold and clammy," said Lockhart. Then he saw Camm, still trying to revive his little boy. "I told him, I think they're all gone," Lockhart testified. "And
David kept yelling ‘why couldn't I have been with them? Why did I have
to play basketball?'"......... But prosecutors allege that Camm staged the murders and used his uncle to help craft an alibi. "When do you stop CPR?" special prosecutor Stan Levco asked. "When you're sure the person is dead," Lockhart responded. "But Brad had already been removed, and David already had had the
chance to perform CPR," Levco continued. "Did you ask him why he stopped
(to come summon you)?" "I can't read into his mind why he did it," Lockhart answered. "He
(Camm) was alone. He probably knew that he needed help and came to get
me.""
The entire story can be found at:
http://www.wave3.com/story/23528347/camm-trial-925-second-uncle-testifies-about-camms-call-for-help
Updated story to end of Wednesday 25 September Testimony;
http://www.wave3.com/story/23531894/camm-trial-925-agony-alibi-i-think-theyre-all-gone
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