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A witness in the murder trial of Dustin Lee Osborne, one of two defendants accused in the 2014 shooting death of a San Antonio man on the South Side, testified Monday that he heard arguing the night of the shooting but ran from the scene.
“It wasn’t any of my business and I didn’t want for it to be my business,” said Noe Quintanilla, the victim’s cousin.
Quintanilla was among the witnesses Monday as testimony continued in the murder trial of Dustin Lee Osborne, accused of killing Ralph Michael Lopez, 34.
Osborne, now 22, and his uncle and co-defendant, Gabriel Aguilar, now 42, went to Lopez’s home to pick up some friends. After an altercation, Lopez, was shot multiple times in his driveway Aug. 11, 2014, and later was pronounced dead at San Antonio Military Medical Center.
Quintanilla said he was at Lopez’s home in the 9200 block of Lytle Avenue the night of the shooting. He said he heard arguing in the front yard, and went to the back.
He said after the arguing stopped, he went back to the front yard and when the shooting started, he “ducked” and ran to the back again. He said before he left the scene, he saw his cousin on the driveway.
Quintanilla was asked numerous times by both prosecutors and defense attorneys whether he saw Lopez with a gun, and he said, “No.”
He said he ran from the scene without calling 911 or checking on his cousin because he was afraid.
“I called my wife,” he said.
If convicted of murder, Osborne faces a maximum of life in prison.
The Bexar County jury that will decide the case also heard from San Antonio Police Department crime scene investigators who recovered shell casings from a .45-caliber automatic handgun, the handgun and two magazines.
The case is being heard before Judge Jefferson Moore who presides over the 186th state District Court.
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