PORT ANGELES — conversations with Thomas Martin Roberts were “bizarre”‘ and random in the hours after he shot Deputy Wally Davis, two officers told a jury Tuesday.
“I remember him talking about angels and being associated with angels,” Clallam County Sheriff’s Detective Dave Fontenot, who negotiated with Roberts during a 26-hour standoff after the shooting, said. “On several occasions, he would bless me.”
Fontenot’s testimony came during the second day of Roberts’ trial, held in Port Angeles before Clallam County Superior Court Judge George L. Wood and an Island County jury.
Roberts, 56, has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to a charge of aggravated first-degree murder in Davis’ Aug. 5, 2000, death.
If convicted, Roberts could face life imprisonment — prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty.
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