GREELEY, Colo. — Prosecutors in the Tom Fallis murder trial played a frantic 911 call Thursday of Fallis reporting that his wife had been shot. While listening to the call, Fallis was visibly upset and crying.
Fallis, a former Weld County sheriff’s jail deputy, is accused of shooting and killing his wife Ashley on New Year’s day 2012. Police initially ruled she had committed suicide, but Fallis was indicted and arrested after the FOX31 Denver Problem Solvers uncovered new evidence in the case.
Jurors listened to the 911 call that Fallis made as 28-year-old Ashley Fallis was on the bedroom floor. They also watched an interview Fallis did with an Evans police detective that night.
In the interview, Fallis said he and his wife argued because she wanted to smoke marijuana during a party at their home. Fallis said he was in the bedroom closet when he heard Ashley Fallis cock her gun.
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“Right when I looked at her, she had the gun to her head and pulled the trigger,” Fallis said on the taped interview.
On that same tape, Fallis angrily denied shooting Ashley. That’s contrary to what a former Weld County sheriff’s deputy told jurors, testifying that he heard Fallis confess.
“I heard him screaming. … ‘I can’t believe I shot her, I can’t believe she’s dead,'” Deputy Chris Graves said.
Fallis defense attorney will cross examine Graves on Friday.