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The 46-year-old Delon Davis, Minot, confirmed his self-defense claims during his certificate and claimed that the alleged victim, Mark Ramon McMillan Jr., 36, Minot, and another person fired the first shots during a discussion in the basement of a Minot Establishment on April 1, 2024.

Davis said he helped McMillan to get a job from the establishment where Davis was also a manager, and the two men both lived in the basement for a while. Davis said that McMillan was released in February due to a lack of work, the discovery that McMillan kept narcotics on the property, and the suspicion that he stole objects from the business was gone. Davis said McMillan threatened to kill him after McMillan was confronted with the missing objects, and on another occasion, when McMillan's drugs were missing, he could not remember the exact data that had occurred the threats.

Davis claimed that McMillan had asked for compensation for the missing narcotics when it belonged to a Mexican cartel that blamed him for her disappearance.

Davis said that he and a man named Anthony Noble had recorded music in the basement of the establishment on April 1, 2024 and then saw McMillan and another man, William Weber, entered the building when he and noble spoke outside in the streets.

The witness of Charles Crane/MDN, Anthony Decoteau, said about Delon Davis's statements, in which he claimed that Decoteau had threatened him to the body of Mark Ramon McMillan Jr.

Davis said that he had started to wear the establishment of the establishment after he was threatened by McMillan and packed it before returning to the ground floor and blocking the door. Davis said McMillan knocked on the door, threatened him and told him that he should come out. Davis claimed that the phone of the phone's phone was dead, and his cell phone had no signal, which prevented him from calling for the law enforcement for help.

Davis said he opened the door and heard two or three shots, which fired the pistol of the establishment twice. Davis said he watched McMillan shot and lies on the floor. Davis said that he then ran out of the front door of the establishment and hid the firearm in a dummy container.

Davis said he returned to the basement to find a man he believed that he was a Mexican man who was connected to a Mexican cartel that he identified as Anthony Decoteau. Davis claimed that Decoteau showed him pictures of his mother and sister and threatened them to damage if he did not dismember and remove McMillan's body and tidy up the scene.

“It didn't seem real to me. It was like something from a film. I was afraid for my life and my family,” said Davis. “Basically, he gave me the instructions to move what was needed. I started cleaning the scene by picking up the envelope.”

Davis said he took a break after preparing a bucket of bleach to mop out the blood and spoke to the owner of the establishment in his vehicle briefly about completing the closure tasks. Davis said the owner asked him why he was nervous, but he did not disclose the situation for his family for fear of threats.

Davis said he called Anthony Noble and asked him to call up the firearm from the garbage container, and told him he thinking he had taken a life. Davis said Noble arrived with the firearm and entered the building with Davis. After watching McMillan's body, Davis said that Noble had tried to convince him, call the police and turn on because the incident was a series of self -defense.

Davis said that he said noble that he could not contact the police because he was afraid of the consequences of a criminal in possession of a firearm, but did not disclose the alleged threat from Decoteau. Davis said that noble was disappointed in his decision, but had made him a trip to buy a suitcase for a planned move from the facility to a nearby apartment.

Later in the evening, said Davis, he finished the scene and wrapped McMillan's body into an air mattress before moving to a utility cabinet in the basement. Davis said he then grabbed his personal objects and spent the rest of the night with a friend before returning to the establishment to open the next morning.

Davis said that he thought of his normal daily activities and did not reveal the incident when he was questioned twice by the law enforcement authorities in April for fear of the alleged threats for his family members.

“I was afraid of my life and my mother and sister were threatened. The fact that I didn't say or there would be an impact,” said Davis. “I really believed that something would happen to my family if I said something.”

Davis said that McMillan's death had heavily burdened his head in the following months, and only when he was arrested when the law enforcement authorities served their search order on the premises on July 2, he felt surely enough to share the information with the law enforcement authorities.

“I knew that the shop would get a lot of setback. They had nothing to do with it, so I had to let them know,” said Davis. “I could no longer take off the pressure from stress and fear. I thought it was time to get forward.”

In the intersection, the deputy lawyer of the state of the state of County, Tiffany Sorg, Davis, questioned his certificate, in particular his description of the shootout itself.

Sortgen asked Davis why he did not announce McMillan's alleged threats in previous law enforcement interviews or in conversations with people like Noble, but Davis insisted: “It is what happened.”

Sortgen asked Davis about the number of shots that he fired and how he reconciled with the lack of shot holes in the walls or the door of the establishment because he had not been shot himself. Davis replied: “I understand what you say, but I know what I heard. I heard two or three pictures.”

“Do you know that you shot twice and have met Mr. McMillan both times?” Asked Sort.

“I don't know if I was, but I shot twice. I brought fire back,” said Davis.

Sortgen asked Davis after the first visit to the Minot police in April while led her through the building. Davis said that he granted the search freely to the officers, but carefully said that a review of the Body Camera film material showed that Davis did not bring her into the room where McMillan's body was in.

Davis confirmed his claims that McMillan and Decoteau had introduced the Mexican cartel angle into the situation. However, the state named Decoteau as a refusal after the defense was suspended.

Decoteau said he met Davis for the first time after McMillan had been reported missing, and he was shocked to hear that Davis had involved him in the incident. Decoteau said he was a local American and not Mexican, and he had never kept the establishment.

The jury was released after both parties had rested their cases. Judge Douglas Mattson ended the procedure for the day so that the parties could have problems with the instructions of the jury.

The final instructions should be delivered this morning.