Shayna Hubers retrial: Hubers wouldn't leave Poston's condo, so he fled to father's house

Sarah Brookbank | Cincinnati Enquirer

Show Caption Hide Caption Shayna Hubers Retrial: Day 4 of Testimony On Day 4 of testimony in the retrial of Shayna Hubers, Ryan Poston's father took the stand.

In April 2012, Ryan Poston showed up on his dad's front porch and asked to stay the night.

Jay Poston told the jury that his son came over that night because his girlfriend, Shayna Hubers, would not leave the condo. He told his father it was easier that way.

"Throughout the entire night all I heard, over and over and over again, was the pinging of his phone with text messages. All night long," Poston testified.

Jay Poston testified on Friday in the retrial of Shayna Hubers, closing out the first week of the trial.

Hubers and Poston dated off-and-on for a year and a half. Prosecutors say Hubers shot Poston in his Highland Heights condominium in 2012 because he wanted to end the relationship. She said she shot him in self-defense.

Hubers was found guilty of murdering 29-year-old Poston in 2015 but was granted a retrial after her attorney discovered a juror in the first trial had a prior felony conviction.

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In the months before Hubers shot Poston, his father told her that it would be best if she left.

"If she stayed she would destroy any chance she ever had of being with Ryan. I said if you leave now, maybe in the future you to can get together," Jay Poston said.

Ryan Poston's uncle also testified on Friday, in cross-examination defense attorney David Eldridge brought up a lawsuit filed against Ryan Poston. The defense said it was a point of "extreme stress" for Poston.

The lawsuit, filed by Poston's former employer, was over clients and was filed after Poston left the employer to start his own law firm.

Jim Poston said he talked to his nephew at 6 p.m. the night he was shot. Jim Poston said he sounded happy and upbeat and shared that the lawsuit had been settled and the stress attached to it was finally over.

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