The defendant, Darrin Lopez, took the stand Thursday to testify about his relationship with Jennifer Faith and the events leading up to her husband, Jamie Faith's, death in 2020.
The state rested in a murder trial for a man accused of driving to Dallas to kill his high school sweetheart’s husband.
"I was devastated, I took an innocent life, I took Amber’s dad from her. A man who was like me," Lopez said.Lopez claimed, even after his arrest, he still believed his girlfriend’s stories that falsely accused her husband of sexual and physical abuse, while urging him against involving police. "Being on the battlefield, the human body can take a lot and still live. I did not want him to suffer, so I approached and I fired the rounds into his head," Lopez testified.She is now serving life in federal prison for interstate commerce in the commission of murder-for-hire.
Lopez said Jennifer told him she hit her breaking point and thought something really bad would happen on October 8. That’s when Lopez made the hours-long drive from his home in Tennessee to Dallas. "Started to transition to a military mindset. I was on a rescue to save Jen and Amber from this man," Lopez responded.He said investigators explained that bruises she claimed were from abuse actually happened in a prior car accident.
[ATTORNEY: "This whole time you’re talking to Rob or you’re talking to Jennifer but never, never are the three of you talking together?"][ATTORNEY: "Never. That didn’t seem strange to you? ‘Hey Rob, we better get on this phone with Jen right now. Maybe you and I can convince her together.’ Nope, never did that?"]
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