Beau Lamarre-Condon claims he didn’t know TV presenter was dead after gunshot to the head

Accused double murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon has claimed he didn’t know one of his alleged victims was dead after he shot him in the head.

Mr Lamarre-Condon, 31, has pleaded not guilty to the murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, arguing self-defence in his murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court.

The accused killer returned to the witness box for the third time on Monday, clutching rosary beads.

The former policeman claims he shot Mr Baird in the shoulder in an attempt to get him to drop a knife, but says he accidentally shot the TV presenter a second time during a struggle. He also told the jury his version of events surrounding Mr Davies’ death, denying he shot him through a bedroom door.

Mr Lamarre-Condon was asked to draw and annotate a floorplan of Mr Baird’s house and indicate where he found certain items including a mobile phone he claims to have used to call triple-0.

Mr Lamarre-Condon also re-enacted the position he was in leading up to the first shot to Mr Baird at the instruction of Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield.

“Put your rosary beads down while you do that,” Mr Hatfield said.

Mr Lamarre-Condon was asked if it was “obvious” to him that Mr Baird was dead as he apparently put him in the recovery position and said he was getting him help.

“I knew he was unresponsive, I just didn’t know he was dead,” Mr Lamarre-Condon said.

He told the jury he initially thought the injury to Mr Baird’s temple was a graze or scrape.

“And with his temple … wasn’t it obvious that he’d been shot through his head … wasn’t there a lot of blood?” Mr Hatfield asked.

“Yes … but it can simply mean that he’s got a marking there,” Mr Lamarre-Condon replied.

He kept the motorcycle helmet he had worn as part of his Uber Eats rider disguise on the entire time, with Mr Hatfield asking whether he had thought to take it off while attending to Mr Baird.

“I didn’t need to … I’m not doing CPR,” he said.

Mr Lamarre-Condon denied suggestions that he “executed” Mr Baird with the second shot, telling the jury he “never executed” the man.

“It was not necessary to shoot him that second time?” Mr Hatfield asked.

“Well I didn’t intentionally do it, so that’s my answer,” the accused killer replied.

Cop on ‘impossible’ bullet claim

Mr Lamarre-Condon claims Mr Davies accidentally shot himself in front of Mr Baird’s bedroom door during a struggle, and that the bullet went out through the back of the man’s head before becoming lodged in the door.

“(The gun) discharged at his face…that obviously was never the plan…it was to get out of the line of fire,” Mr Lamarre-Condon said.

“It got stuck in the door…I had to get the bullet out after.”

Mr Hatfield asked whether it was the case that he shot Mr Davies through the door while the Qantas host was on the phone.

“I never shot Luke through the door,” he replied.

NSW Police ballistics expert Lucas Van Der Walt earlier told the jury it would be “impossible” for a bullet to pass through a body before becoming lodged in a door during the Crown case.

The bullet hole in Mr Baird’s door was only discovered in July this year as Mr Lamarre-Condon covered it with a felt sticker and a mounting hook.

Accused killer’s Triple-0 call claim

Mr Lamarre-Condon claims he found a phone on the bench after shooting Mr Baird and called triple-0 before moving towards the front of the house for the purposes of flagging down a paramedic or passing ambulance.

Prosecutors allege Luke Davies says “get out” and “f**k off” in a triple-0 call in his final moments before he was allegedly murdered by Beau Lamarre-Condon. Authorities tried to call Mr Davies back when the call disconnected, but the calls went to his voicemail.

There, he was met with Mr Davies who was now holding his gun, Mr Lamarre-Condon said, telling the jury he used a “shoo” motion and asked Mr Davies to “get out” before the man raised the gun and told him to “f**k off”.

“I suggest to you that it’s Mr Davies, it’s the same voice saying ‘Get out, f**k off,” Mr Hatfield said.

“I disagree it’s two voices,” Mr Lamarre Condon replied, with the call played to the jury several times on Monday.

He denied suggestions he shot the Qantas host through the bedroom door after hearing him on the phone, telling Mr Hatfield it would have been “impossible” to hear as his ears were ringing from the first two shots while referencing the alleged terror attack at Bondi last year.

“My ears were ringing out I remember it very vividly,” Mr Lamarre-Condon told the jury.

“If you look at the incident at Bondi, multiple police officers had to go to hospital because of the gunshots (near their ears).”

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