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Layton • A judge has ordered a trial for Jory Arlow Fenstermaker on a first-degree murder charge in the death of a friend's ex-boyfriend, who was shot in West Point and died soon after.
Second District Judge Robert Dale ruled at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing Friday that there is probable cause to try the 22-year-old Ogden man in the fatal shooting of Randy Lennel Lewis on March 15.
Fenstermaker has pleaded not guilty. An arraignment is scheduled for Feb. 11.
According to testimony at the hearing, Lewis, 29, who had moved to Kansas City, Mo., a few months prior, was visiting ex-girlfriend Andrea Rae Green and their children at her house while Fenstermaker was visiting with them the evening of March 14.
Davis County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Jon West testified he was told the two men, who had been drinking and smoking marijuana, were "play slapping" and wrestling but still seemed to be getting along.
But Fenstermaker said Lewis hit him in the ribs later in the evening and then Fenstermaker backed up and pulled out a gun, West said. Fenstermaker told investigators Lewis was coming after him and grabbed something that might have been a knife, so Fenstermaker fired his gun, West testified.
West said there were no weapons found in the general vicinity of where Lewis was shot, at about 12:30 a.m. March 15.
Green testified that Fenstermaker — whom she described as just a friend — left after the shooting and sent her a message that said, "I wasn't there. He had a knife. I left." She testified that she did not believe Lewis was a threat to Fenstermaker's life.
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