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Witnesses offer inconsistent testimony of deadly Martin City shooting

by DERRICK PERKINS
Daily Inter Lake | July 24, 2024 12:00 AM

Eyewitnesses offered differing – at times clashing – accounts of the fatal August 2022 shooting in Martin City during the second day of Del Orrin Crawford’s murder trial in Flathead County District Court.  

Prosecutors accuse Crawford, 42, of Kila, of gunning down Whisper Sellars and wounding her husband, Doug Crosswhite, during an argument over a golf cart outside the South Fork Saloon in the early hours of Aug. 27. Crawford, who has pleaded not guilty to a slew of charges stemming from the fatal confrontation including deliberate homicide, assault with a weapon and tampering with evidence, maintains he acted in self-defense.   

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