DAYTON — The trial for the man accused of shooting and killing a pregnant woman and a 16-year-old boy last year began on Tuesday.
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Nicole “Nico” Cunigan, Jr., 33, is on trial for the murders of Precious Taste, the mother of his children, and Deante Johnson.
Taste, who was also pregnant, and Johnson were shot and killed in a home on Shaftesbury Road in May 2024.
Cunigan was arrested in Cleveland two months after the shooting.
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Prosecutors said police received calls about a shooting just after 6:00 a.m. at the home. They had a Dayton Police sergeant explain, while watching his body camera video, how they decided to make entry into the home.
As reported on News Center 7 at 5:00, the video showed one surviving adult inside the home and finding Taste shot to death at the bottom of the basement stairs.
A second Dayton officer’s body camera showed officers discovering Johnson. He’d initially been missed because his body was completely under some covers.
Officers uncovered him and spotted a gun clutched in his hand.
Prosecutors told the jury the state “fully intends to disprove self-defense” claims if Cunigan’s lawyers choose to go that route and use that video.
The trial will pick back up Wednesday morning.
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