The trial is underway for two men charged with allegedly murdering a Marine and injuring his wife during a fatal robbery four years ago.
Marine Cpl. Jonathan Price and his wife, Megan, were out celebrating her 24th birthday at Austin City Saloon in Lexington, Kentucky, on the night of June 20, 2014.
The couple had left the bar after midnight and were waiting in the parking lot for the rest of the birthday party when allegedly two men approached them, Megan Price told Kentucky Forward in 2015.
One of the men allegedly had demanded Megan’s purse at gunpoint. As she went to pull out cash, the attacker allegedly had grabbed the purse off her shoulder and shot her in the leg.
Jonathan Price had started fight with the second attacker. Megan Price recounted watching helplessly as her husband was pushed to the ground and shot in the back.
“Jonathan, I love you. Jonathan, I love you,” Megan Price had told her 26-year-old husband repeatedly during a 911 call she had made while unable to move on the ground.
That call is now being examined as evidence in the trial of the two men charged with the crime.
Quincinio Canada, 26, and Dawan Mulazim, 34, have been charged with murder, robbery and assault, and could face the death penalty, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Both defendants were in court Wednesday as opening statements and witness testimony got underway in Fayette County, Kentucky.
“He was a Marine but he didn’t die in combat,” Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Kathryn Webster said in her opening statement, according to the Herald-Leader. “Instead, his life was taken from him.”
Jonathan Price had joined the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve in 2011, according to Kentucky Forward.
The men accused of killing him are suspected of allegedly committing string of crimes in the Lexington area around the time of the murder, the Herald-Leader reports.
