Bobbie Mitchell, 37, testified one of his cell phones was found by the body of Siani Overby because he’d given it to her because her phone’s battery was about to die.
The 23-year-old Overby was shot three times shortly before 2 a.m. on Easter Sunday, April 1, 2018.
She and Mitchell had been arguing in text messages shortly before her murder.
She was angry he wouldn’t come see her, he was angry she kept pushing him to visit.
He said he got home sometime around 1a.m. and she was waiting outside his home. He said Overby was talking loudly and he didn’t want to upset his neighbors, so he gave her the phone in the hopes that she would go away.
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But prosecutor Samantha Kaufman asked him if he had given her one of his phones, why did he send a text to her phone just minutes before she was shot and killed.
Kaufman also asked why, eight minutes after the murder, he called family to tell them to pack bags for a trip to Connecticut.
Mitchell testified that trip was planned.
He was arrested in Connecticut two days later.
Prosecutors say Mitchell killed Overby because she was threatening to tell police he was selling drugs if he didn’t pay child support.
Mitchell’s lawyer showed a paternity test from 2016 that showed he was not child’s father.