By KATIE MILANI & JOAN MARTINEZ
The prosecution rested its case Tuesday against the Brooklyn man who foreshadowed killing his girlfriend on Facebook three days before he allegedly shot her.
Woody Borgella, 29, was scheduled to take the witness stand later in the day to testify that his actions were a result of self-defense against his girlfriend, Lora Ann Evans, 31.
Borgella, an unemployed security guard, was charged with shooting Evans to death in their Flatbush apartment in September 2011 after they argued over her suspicions of his infidelity and his claim that she stole money from him.
Borgella and Evens dated for three months before he posted lyrics to his Facebook profile, indicating he was going to kill her.
‘I smell murder where the wind blows,’ he posted on the popular social networking site on a Monday in September, 2011. The following Wednesday, the shooting occurred.
Earlier in the Supreme Court trial, the medical examiner testified that Evens’ death resulted in a gunshot wound to the chest that pierced her pulmonary artery. She also suffered blunt trauma to her arms and legs.
After showing a photo of a wound on Borgella’s arm, the medical examiner denied the defendant’s claim that the wound was a result of an attack by Evans. The wound was not recent, the medical examiner concluded.
Jurors heard recorded snippets of the defendant’s phone conversations:
“It all happened so f______ fast,” said a voice on one recording. “It was an accident, that s___ was an accident.”
Borgella has turned down several plea deals in the case.
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