SAN ANTONIO – The murder trial for a woman accused of killing her deaf-mute friend began Tuesday.
Michelle Chase fired one shot through the window of her apartment killing her friend William Farr, 50, on the night of Feb. 8, 2016. A day later, Chase, 50, was arrested and booked for murder after giving police several different accounts of the shooting.
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“Eventually the story that she told us is that she was afraid, that he was banging on her doors and windows,” prosecutor Gretchen Flader said as jury selection in Chase’s murder trial wrapped up.
Flader said that for Farr to bang on Chase’s door and windows was not unusual.
“We have witnesses who say that was something that he commonly did was come over and knock on her door and windows to get her attention,” she said. “He was deaf-mute, so he couldn’t hear if she was yelling from inside the apartment.”
According to police reports, Chase fled to the home of a relative following the shooting.
When she returned the following morning, she found Farr’s body sprawled on the sidewalk and called police.
Testimony in the trial is set to begin Wednesday morning in Judge Jefferson Moore’s 186th District Court. A guilty verdict could mean life in prison for Chase.
