Entertainer Wayne Newton tells a jury he fired a gunshot to scare away two burglars at his family's home a year ago.
Wayne Newton takes the witness stand in the State of Nevada case against Weslie Martin, accused of burglarizing Newton's home, at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Tuesday, June 18, 2019.
“She said, ‘Shoot ‘em. Shoot ‘em. There they are. He almost hit me with the pipe iron,’” the 77-year-old “Danke Schoen” singer said. “I decided to take one shot in the air. That was the last time I saw them.” But the burglars who 10 days later apparently tried to pry open a safe in Wayne Newton’s dressing room had bandanas on their faces and Ewing told jurors that only a vague video image of someone with a similar body shape and size on the Newton home stairway might tie Martin to the break-in the Newtons interrupted.
Under questioning by defense lawyer Chris Peterson, Kathleen Newton acknowledged that in a two-page written statement she gave to police less than three hours after the incident she wrote nothing about having been threatened with a tire iron or crowbar. Martin was convicted of two unrelated previous burglary-related felonies in 2015 and is currently serving up to six years in prison for violating probation and being a felon in possession of a gun.
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