FORT COLLINS — Further details of Tanner Flores’ state of mind when he allegedly shot and killed Ashley Doolittle were revealed to a jury Friday in testimony from the detective who interviewed Flores after his arrest.

Flores, a 19-year-old Berthoud man, is accused of shooting and killing Doolittle, 18, his former girlfriend, in June 2016. He faces life in prison on first-degree murder allegations, as well as up to 32 years on a felony kidnapping charge in the case.

Danny Norris, an investigator with the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office, told a jury about his interview with Flores following the defendant’s arrest at his deceased grandfather’s property in Collbran, where Doolittle’s body was found in Flores’ truck on June 10, 2016.

On Thursday, the jury learned Doolittle was shot multiple times in the head on June 9, 2016, while a passenger in Flores’ truck on Larimer County Road 21 southwest of Loveland, and that Flores drove her body to Collbran and cleaned blood off her body and washed her clothes.

Prosecutors played video footage of Flores’ interview with Norris, who was on the stand Friday.

When the interrogation began, Norris said Flores began his story not by explaining why Doolittle’s body was in his truck, but he instead went back to an exchange between himself and Doolittle at Sundance Steakhouse and Saloon in east Fort Collins four days before her death.

“He was saying she was talking to other guys,” Norris said.

Prosecutors with the 8th Judicial District Attorney’s Office have attempted to paint Flores as a jealous boyfriend who intended to kill Doolittle after their relationship became contentious.

“She was acting funny, kind of like ignoring me,” Flores told Norris of Doolittle’s behavior at the Sundance, according to the footage of the interview. “She stayed away from me. She wouldn’t dance with me. I wasn’t happy about it. Not angry, but hurt.”

Earlier testimony from Doolittle’s friend Amber Wright indicated that Flores argued with Doolittle outside a bathroom at the Sundance, and he then sat down on a bench and cried before leaving the saloon and sitting in his truck.

When Doolittle returned to the Sundance two nights later, she asked Flores not to come, he said in the interview. Flores reportedly became concerned about her relationships with men named Jared Breitstine and Tory Johnson after Flores looked through text messages on her phone when he was with her the day after her second visit to the Sundance.

“I saw she was talking to Tory; she said she wasn’t dating me anymore,” Flores told Norris. “I told (Johnson) I’d really appreciate if he stopped talking to her like that. He said you need to talk to Jared Breitstine about that, too. When (Doolittle) called me about talking to Tory, she broke up with me. She said she wanted to see other people. I was mad, because she didn’t want to be with me.”

During the interview, Flores originally said that a .22-caliber revolver that was in his truck accidentally fired and struck Doolittle after she grabbed it, and he tried to wrestle it away from her. He later admitted to Norris that he intentionally pulled the trigger on the first shot and fired again to put her out of her pain, according to the recorded interview.

Defense attorneys have argued that although Flores caused Doolittle’s death, he did not intend to do so, and so he can’t be charged with first-degree murder, which requires deliberation and intent.

Norris, in his interview with Flores, asked why he shot Doolittle instead of moving on.

“We talked about getting married. I can’t move on. I got so close to her. I couldn’t look at another girl and see myself being with her,” Flores told Norris.

Norris asked Flores why he didn’t shoot himself instead of Doolittle, to which the defendant responded, “I don’t know.”

Under cross-examination by defense attorney Janet Laughon, Norris said he believed Flores intended to kill Doolittle, due to his statement that he shot her in the head because he thought it would cause an immediate death.

Court was adjourned for the weekend at midday Friday following Norris’ testimony because witnesses for the defense are unavailable until Monday.

Defense attorney Daniel Jasinski said he expects to call Flores’ grandfather George Flores, Doolittle’s father, Jeff Doolittle, and Larimer County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Justin Atwood, among others, as witnesses next week.

Jasinski did not say that Tanner Flores would testify, and he doesn’t anticipate calling his mother, Darla Flores, as a witness but will reserve the right to do so.

The trial was originally scheduled to last through Oct. 6, but it appears to be moving more quickly than anticipated.

Sam Lounsberry: 970-635-3630, slounsberry@prairiemountainmedia.com and twitter.com/samlounz.