Opening Statements Given In Portage County Murder Trial

Testimony is being given in the second day of the trial for a man charged with second-degree intentional homicide in a 2016 shooting.  Twenty-one-year-old Deonte Lezine was killed near the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus.  Shooting suspect Kyle Engen took off and wasn’t arrested until a month later in Colorado.  Engen’s trial started Monday with opening statements.  Prosecutors say Lezine and his friends planned to steal 72-hundred dollars worth of marijuana that Engen was selling.  The defense says it was a case of self-defense when Engen fired five shots, killing Lezine.