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Hahn said when he arrived at the home — alerted by his dispatcher that there had been a shooting — he saw what he thought was the silhouette of a woman on the porch.

He yelled out, “Where is the gun?”

Only when a male voice responded, “It’s at the back of the hallway in the house,” did the officer realize there was a man standing in the driveway.

“I said, ‘Where is the guy?’,” Hahn said, and the man, who was on the phone talking, the officer thought, to 911, gestured and said, “Over here; he’s not breathing.”

That’s when he saw Styres, who was lying on his back in the mud. Hahn began to do chest compressions on him and, as he did, he said, “I could hear air escaping from his chest … I didn’t know where he had been shot…” He cut away some of the clothing from Styres’ body and saw the large gunshot wound on the upper left side of his chest.

Shortly afterwards, paramedics arrived and as they inserted a breathing tube, Hahn kept doing chest compressions. With each one, he said, “The air would be expelled from the large hole in his chest.”

At 3.27 a.m., the medics formally pronounced Styres dead.

Hahn did a cursory tour of the scene, noted that the passenger door was open, that the lock had been punched in, and that there was damage to the ignition column. Though the car wasn’t running, the power to the dashboard was on. A black glove and a screwdriver were on the ground, in the mud.

Later, in cross-examination by Jeff Manishen, who represents Khill, Hahn said that experienced car thieves can punch open a door lock within seconds. After they expose the ignition column, he said, they can pull the wires such that first the ancillary lights in the vehicle come on, and, if they pull the wires far enough, the vehicle will start.

The trial continues Wednesday.

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