The New Orleans police detective who interrogated Cache Shelton after the December 2022 shooting death of her boyfriend, Nicolas Harrison, testified Tuesday that Shelton was “all over the place” as she repeatedly changed her account of what happened inside a downtown hotel room.
But Shelton’s defense attorney used the second day of her murder trial to argue that her core claim remained consistent: that she and Harrison were struggling over the gun when it fired.
The courtroom exchanges grew increasingly combative as New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams and defense attorney Kevin Boshea sparred during testimony from NOPD Detective Ryan St. Martin, who questioned Shelton in the hours after Harrison was shot in the forehead inside a Courtyard by Marriott hotel room on Julia Street…