Witness testifies she saw young man running from video store morning of the Sweeney murder
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A woman who got coffee at a nearby shop the morning Renee Sweeney was murdered testified Thursday that she saw a young man running “really fast” carrying a bag under his left arm.
A woman who got coffee at a nearby shop the morning Renee Sweeney was murdered testified Thursday that she saw a young man running “really fast” carrying a bag under his left arm.
Paulette Taillefer said he looked at her as he ran past, his eyes bulging out.
“He wasn’t fat, he wasn’t thin. He looked healthy,” Taillefer said.
“But boy could he run.”
Taillefer testified on the first formal day of the trial of Robert Steven Wright, who is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Sweeney.
She was killed Jan. 27, 1998, at the Adults Only Video store at a Paris Street strip mall where she was a clerk, sometime between 11 and 11:30 a.m.
Taillefer said the morning of the murder, she was headed to a friend’s house to clean and stopped at the Country Bagel shop for a coffee. The coffee shop was part of the same mall the video store and was located closest to Paris Street.
