"What are you going to do? Shoot me?"

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With a .22-caliber handgun pointed at his midsection, Cody Couch bellowed, "What are you going to do, shoot me?" moments before being shot to death at his Folsom area home last year, according to testimony in the second-degree murder trial of the trigger woman - Margaret Stockstill.

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Copeland said she and Stockstill - a close friend of hers - were trying to get Couch to leave the home as a way to end the drunken melee.

Instead, Stockstill pulled a gun and fired a single shot at the 27-year-old Couch.

"He was being a smart...," Copeland said in the video. "He said, 'Oh yea, what are you going to do, shoot me?' And she shot him."

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Stockstill, of Franklinton, was initially charged with manslaughter in the April 14, 2017, shooting death of Couch, who was planning to marry Copeland last summer. However, a St. Tammany Parish grand jury indicted her June 8 of last year on the more serious charge of second-degree murder.

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The defense was expected to continue calling witnesses Tuesday afternoon.

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