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Posted: 5:57 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22, 2012
As testimony resumed in the death penalty trial of quadruple murder suspect Richard Ringold in Gwinnett Superior Court, jurors learned more details about the only surviving victim.
First responders testified that as they arrived at the house on Clairidge Lane where four people lay dead or dying, a four-year-old girl came down the stairs and described what happened.
"First she said that 'Rich killed my whole family, he shot everybody'," testified Gwinnett Police Sgt. Kevin Isenhour, the supervising officer on the scene. "I said, 'Are you OK?' and she said 'No, he shot me too'."
Paramedics discovered Nhaje Alexander had been shot twice. She had actually dressed her wounds herself and changed shirts before police arrived.
"She said that she had gone upstairs, taken the old shirt off that was covered in blood, and she put bandaids on the wounds, and then put what she described as her favorite shirt on," testified EMT Adam Hawkins.
He said the little girl asked him not to cut her shirt off because her mommy had given it to her.
She also told Hawkins Ringold was the shooter.
"She stated that she was inside playing the Wii game and Rich came inside and shot Mama in the face," testified Hawkins.
Alexander is expected to take the stand Tuesday.
Gifty Kargbo, who escaped the house before being shot, testified Friday that Ringold had had an argument with his girlfriend and the mother of Alexander, Atania Butler, before he shot her and then the rest of the victims.
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