May 09--EL RENO -- Prosecutors continued Thursday morning to point out contradictions in the story Rebecca Bryan gave to authorities after her husband was shot.
Bryan, 54, is on trial in the murder of Keith Bryan, 52, the Nichols Hills fire chief who was shot to death Sept. 20, 2011, in the Mustang home he shared with his wife of 33 years. Rebecca Bryan blamed an intruder who she said walked into the house at 1320 W Rose Hill Drive and shot Keith Bryan before apologizing and saying the fire chief should have hired him.
James McClung, the EMSA paramedic who responded the night Keith Bryan was shot, testified Thursday that Rebecca Bryan told him she had come into the room to find an intruder standing over her husband after shooting him.
That story contradicts what she told police that night. She told officers she was sitting in the living room next to her husband when the intruder came in through the garage and fired one shot into her husband's head.
McClung also told the jury Rebecca Bryan was more concerned with preserving fingerprints in the living room than the well being of her husband.
"She was excited about us not touching anything," McClung said. "Not once was I asked how he was doing, if he was still alive."
A friend testified Wednesday that Rebecca Bryan showed her a photo of another man's penis while they drove to the hospital after the shooting and said she had had sex with the man earlier that day.
Bryan's defense attorney has argued the couple had a strained marriage but reconciled before the shooting.
Investigators turned their attention to Rebecca Bryan after they found a gun, a glove, a shell casing and a blanket with bullet holes in the dryer in the home's utility room. The gun, which belonged to the Bryans, was later identified as the weapon used to shoot Keith Bryan.
Reporter Bryan Dean is tweeting updates from the trial. Follow along below:
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