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Testimony focuses on phone at scene of double murder

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By Valerie Lough, Staff Writer Updated 7:26 AM Tuesday, April 27, 2010

An open cell phone was found at the scene where two women had been shot to death in 2008, a police officer testified Monday, April 26.

The testimony was part of the capital murder trial — which is in its third day — of Charles Cunningham.

The 39-year-old man is being tried in Clark County Common Pleas Court on charges of aggravated murder, felony murder, felonious assault, having weapons under disability and tampering with evidence.

He is accused in the shootings of Heidi Shook, 28, and Jessica Serna, 27, on Oct. 4, 2008.

Springfield Police Division officer Jeffrey Steinmetz testified Monday that he collected an open cell phone at the scene where Shook and Serna were gunned down.

Last week, the jury heard a recording from a 911 call that investigators say was placed by one of the victims during the attack.

Prosecutors assert that the recording captured the shooting in progress, an open call that police were able to track to scene of the crime.

Serna and Shook were found shot on North Street just east of Water Street shortly before  3 a.m.

Shook died at the scene; Serna died at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton a day later.

If convicted on all charges, Cunningham could face the death penalty.

Testimony is expected to resume at 9 a.m. today.

Charles  Cunningham

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