NORRISTOWN, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — A 27-year-old Warrington man, accused of shooting his girlfriend outside her West Conshohocken home as she tried to break-up with him, is on trial for first-degree murder.
Michael Dutkiewicz, from Oakfield Road in Warrington, is accused of shooting and killing Alyssa Wiest, 25, outside her home on Moorehead Avenue minutes after she ended their relationship.
Prosecutor Yasmine Finnegan told jurors Wiest broke up with Dutkiewicz around 12:19 a.m. on May 18, saying she never could have known that decision would lead him to take her life.
Finnegan said Dutkiewicz asked to come back in the house to get some of his things while she went upstairs. Finnegan says at 12:23 a.m., Dukiewicz searched on his phone “how to load and shoot a revolver.”
He grabbed the gun Wiest kept in the console by her television and went up to her bedroom, fired at her as she ran down the stairs and outside, then shot her in the head as she was on the ground, before driving off.
Neighbors testified they heard a scream before the gun shots. One described it as “guttural, like her whole body was screaming.” Another described it as “pure fear.”
Finnegan told jurors they would see Ring camera video of “him hunting her.”
Defense attorney Tim Woodward said it wasn’t a whodunnit or a how-dunnit, but instead a why-dunnit. He said Dutkiewicz was blindsided by the breakup and the couple had been drinking that night. Add in a gun and Woodward called it a toxic situation, but maintained it lacked the premeditation required for first-degree murder.
The trial is expected to last through Thursday.