Steven Justin Hedrick speaks to his attorney during his trial for deliberate homicide at Flathead County District Court on Tuesday, Jan. 16. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Casey Kreider
January 16, 2024
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Shooting victim’s ex-girlfriend takes stand in homicide trial
Prosecutors allege that Steven Justin Hedrick, 33, committed felony assault with a weapon when he intervened — armed with a handgun — in a disturbance involving Hawkins and her ex-boyfriend, Jeffery Brookshire, in the Local Monthly Lodgings in the early morning hours of Jan. 24, 2023.
Trial begins for Whitefish shooting suspect
County Attorney Travis Ahner opened his case against accused killer Steven Hedrick on Tuesday by asking jurors to hold the 33-year-old responsible for turning an argument over noise with a neighbor in a Whitefish extended stay hotel last year into a deadly shooting.