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Edward Kendricks speaks quietly with lawyer Jason Demastus during his post-conviction appeals hearing Thursday.A former Chattanooga police officer testified this afternoon that Edward T. Kendrick III was crying and in disbelief as he told officers in 1994 that he'd just shot his wife.
Kendrick is seeking a new trial on his 1994 murder conviction. He shot his wife, Lisa Kendrick, in the chest outside her workplace, records show.
William Lapoint was one of the officers who responded when Kendrick fled the Lee Highway BP Oil store after the shooting.
"He was very distraught," Lapoint said before Judge Don Poole in Hamilton County Criminal
Court. "He said, 'I can't believe I did that."
Kendrick has maintained since his arrest that the Remington 7400 .30-06 "went off" as he was moving it, sending a bullet into his wife's chest and killing her.
A witness at the scene testified he stepped outside the store and saw Kendrick standing over his wife, saying, "I told you so."
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