New details emerge in day two of Ish trial

On Tuesday, emotions were high as several more witnesses took the stand throughout the day, including Ish’s former girlfriend at the time the alleged crime happened.

The first witness the state called to the stand was Jody Walker, a former Duffy’s bartender, who testified about Eugene Lorne Red Elk’s calm demeanor during his time working as a bouncer back in 2009.

The timeline of events, according to Walker, matched with yesterday’s witness testimonies, saying she received a phone call from someone at the Bourbon Barrel, telling her to be on the lookout for a man matching Ish’s description.

She said when he first walked in, he seemed drunk, sat down at the bar, and turned his back to her.

Walker told the court she asked him for his I.D. and he told her he didn’t want anything to drink.

“He said something along the lines of ‘I’m waiting for someone’ or ‘I’m looking for someone’ – I can’t quite remember exactly,” Walker said.

She said she remembers this incident since he pulled out an out-of-state identification card and threw it at her.

That’s when she got the phone call and told Red Elk to keep an eye on him.

According to several witnesses who took the stand to testify who were all in the bar that night, Red Elk had stepped outside on the back patio with someone matching Ish’s description. They had some sort of discussion nobody could hear, and the then led Ish out of the bar.

One key witness, Narci Kimball, was in the bar that night with a few friends. She said she left the bar to drive her friend home who only lived about a block away.

“As I left, I told Lorne that I would be right back,” Kimball said.

She said she remembered the same song playing when she returned back to the bar minutes later as what was playing when she left. As she pulled up, that’s when she saw Red Elk’s body laying in the parking lot.

She said she ran over to him, his head was laying in a puddle of blood, and she thought he had been hit by a car.

Kimball said he was unconscious until she turned his head to start performing CPR. She said that’s when he started trying to breath and started choking on his own blood.

She ran inside, telling Walker to call police.

When the defense started cross-examining Walker, she couldn’t remember any details other than what had happened that night.

The prosecution asked her about the dent in her car, and she said it had been there before she bought the car from her step-brother.

When the defense asked her how long after the incident she spoke with police about all of it, she couldn’t remember any details of her testimony to police, dates, or approximations.

The court indicated police did in fact examine her car at some point, after she was accused of running-over Red Elk.

When asked why she couldn’t remember any details, sobbing, she told the defense, “I see it every day,” in regards to the images of Red Elk laying in the parking lot.

The last witness of the day was Lanette Denny, Ish’s former girlfriend during the time of the alleged crime.

She said she spoke with him on the phone earlier that night at around eight o’clock to chat about the NBA finals for roughly five minutes.

Later at midnight, she said they spoke on the phone once more when he told her he thought he might have beat someone up that night, but she said he couldn’t tell her where or who it was.

The trial will resume on Wednesday morning at nine o’clock.