The prosecutor described the couple’s relationship as sometimes “volatile,” but by turns informed by being “madly in love” with one another and “verbally and physically abusive.”
The defense attorney, however, disputed her client was abusive and testimony would show his on-again, off-again girlfriend behaved erratically at times and was occasionally violent toward him, and the gun he used to shoot her in the chest “went off by accident.”
Standing at a lectern and facing jurors at the outset of her statement, Senior Deputy District Attorney Julie Underwood described Jack as a “creative” young woman “coming into her own” and in love with Pontarelli. She then pointed to him seated next to his attorney, Jessica Agnich of Redwood City. Pontarelli “loved guns,” fancied himself being a gangster, and is alleged to have shot Jack with a .40-caliber handgun, she said and added that jurors would hear him say, “That’s why I’m a real gangster” as the gun is fired.
Agnich also noted allegations of Jack’s erratic behavior, one of them being the young woman once “jumped from a second-floor balcony.” He said he recalled, after getting dressed, of “hearing the word ‘gun’ ” and heard a gunshot, then overheard Pontarelli’s mother ask her son, “Gage, what did you do?”
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