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Murder trial begins for suspect in 2007 shooting

by Channel 2 News staff
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The murder trial for a man prosecutors say shot a woman and her fiancé in 2007 began Wednesday in Anchorage Superior Court.

On March 2, 2007, Jennifer Olson, 18, and Kori Johnson, 22 were in their room looking for a movie with 22-year-old Nicholas Showers-Glover, their roommate, when he pulled out a gun and fired at them, prosecutor Taylor Winston said Wednesday.

Olson died in an ambulance as it was heading to Alaska Regional Hospital.

Showers-Glover went on the lam after the shooting, and turned himself in five days later after a tearful plea from his mother.

Showers-Glovers' mother sat side-by-side with Olson's mother in the first row of the courtroom gallery Wednesday.

Winston, the prosecutor, showed the jury an enlarged picture of the couple and said Showers-Glover "killed their future."

The prosecution's first witness was a police dispatcher who took several 911 calls about the shooting, which happened a short distance from several middle school students who had just been dropped off by their bus.

Police officers, EMTs and emergency room doctors were expected to testify Wednesday afternoon.

See a complete report on the Channel 2 evening news broadcasts.

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