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OSAGE — Ronald Rand, one of his friends and a DCI agent took the stand during the third day of the Hampton man’s first-degree murder trial.

Rand, 52, said he and girlfriend Michelle Key, 51, had broken up in November and reconciled a week before she was killed. He said Key had cheated on him.

“At first I couldn’t forgive her for being with John,” Rand said. “She broke my heart.”

The two had been drinking, smoking marijuana on top of prescription medications the weekend they reconciled — the weekend of the shooting.

Rand said he had no plans to kill her and that he had “much better plans,” which he said involved “cuddling” and “making love.”

While testifying, Rand laughed several times as he recalled how Key couldn’t cook or work the television remote.

When asked about the shooting, Rand said he wanted to show her how to use the gun because they were going to go shooting once they “sobered up.”

He said he had the gun pointing down and when she grabbed to take the gun, it went off.

Rand said he only remembered bits and pieces after the gun went off.