Not only did Shayna Hubers admit Thursday that she fired six shots while killing her boyfriend, she rather casually offered almost as many reasons for unloading the gun on him.
Hubers, testifying for the second day in her murder retrial, originally told police she wanted to put Ryan Poston out of his misery after the 2012 shooting in his Highland Heights condo. She said Poston was twitching after the first shot and that it was too painful for her to watch.
But under cross examination from Commonwealth Attorney Michelle Snodgrass, Hubers volunteered three more reasons.
"One was that when I first shot him he let out a really loud noise that sounded like an animal. It was a very animalistic noise. I scared me. It freaked me out," Hubers said.
"I also wasn't sure when I first shot him where the shots had entered or if I had just made him more angry and therefore he was more a threat - it would make the situation even more severe.
"And thirdly, I had the mistaken belief that there was another gun on the table. And though there wasn't another gun on the table at the time, I thought there was."
Snodgrass them reminded Hubers of a private comment she made after her arrest, when she said the shooting had given Poston the nose job he wanted.
Snodgrass: “And, you were concerned enough for Mr. Poston that you wanted to make sure he didn't have to live with a deformed face, weren't you?"
Hubers: “I said that.”
Shayna Hubers testifies about killing boyfriend Ryan Poston
