Chanel Skains, one of the original seven suspects in St. John deputy shootings, said in the preliminary investigation

  Chanel Skains knelt on the gravel LaPlace trailer park where she lived with her husband, daughter and son-shaking hands with a St. John Parish deputy who was hit by a hail of bullets from a few seconds, stroking her hair and forehead.

"Are they talking about you?" asked the deputy in panic to the voice which they heard on the radio broadcast was a sheriff office, lying on the floor beside him. MP mumbled yes. "They're coming," Skains assured between bouts of crying and desperate cries for help - so hectic, in fact, she had not noticed his gunshot wound to the arm. "They're coming," she said. "I promise that they will come."

But help would arrive too late. Moments later, the member died, one of the two victims of a terrible ambush 16 August 2012. It's ambush killed members Jeremy and Brandon Triche and Nielsen left Deputies Michael Scott Boyington and Jason Triche with Boyington so severe that the required six or seven surgical wounds and fraud should have his spleen, gall bladder and one of his kidneys removed.

Four suspects will be tried for these crimes, including Terry Smith Skains husband and in-laws and son Derrick Brian Smith and Kyle Jökel. Terry and Derrick Smith are accused of a number of attempted first-degree murder. Brian Smith and Jökel are each charged with two counts of first-degree murder, the death of Jeremy Nielsen and fraud, if convicted, they threaten possible death penalty. Skains and Britney Keith, the girlfriend of Brian Smith, pleaded guilty to accessory. The charges against Teniecha Bright - the authorities said they had just go back home with the Smiths that day in August, and was originally booked to be a leader of the attempted first-degree murder - have been rejected in October last year.

On Friday morning in a tearful testimony of two hours in a preliminary examination hearing in Edgard Skains remembered the fear, panic and violence that staggered by the Scenic Riverview Mobile Home that August morning.

Shortly after 04.00 clock, 16 August Skains said she received a mysterious phone call from his son Derrick. Skains out of bed in a mobile home with her husband, Terry Smith split and went to the kitchen to make coffee. She knew that Terry and his son would soon come home from the Valero refinery in LaPlace, she worked the late shift. Then his phone rang.

"The cops chase us," Derrick Smith said suddenly suspended.

"I thought he was joking, because he loved to practice as" things said Skains. But because Skains knew that her husband, who was driving a Chevrolet truck, has no license, she began to fear that perhaps the group was in trouble they leave the trailer, as they pulled up Terry, Derrick and Brian Smith, Jökel and bright - .. Neighbors and colleagues, Terry Smith often commute to work - paid on the truck.

"I asked Terry what happened," said Skains. "He told me that Brian shot a guard."

Terry Smith was appointed Deputy Michael Scott Boyington, including Brian Smith reference allegedly shot with an assault rifle outside the park after Boyington Valero tried to pull over. The Smiths then raced Bayou Steel Road to the trailer park.

Terry Smith said Skains inside the trailer back. It forces. Meanwhile, he returned to his car. The others, including Keith Skains inside the trailer was assembled in the trailer. After Skains Derrick Smith left the trailer shortly after.

"Then Brian said," Daddy turning on me, "said Skains." He went up and down, talking, saying that we had to leave, we have to do, we can not stay here. "

Skains said in his statement that Brian Smith often presented a paranoid behavior: peering through the window, as if it were followed, suspicious of the loyalty of his family and friends.

"I said no, no, no, that's good," said Skains. Moments later, Terry Smith returned from his car with a gun over his shoulder. When Terry Smith went to get the gun on the bed, Skains took the gun and put it under a pile of clothes in the closet with her purse, which was in possession of a handgun. Terry Smith left the trailer, and a few moments later Skains heard voices outside.

"I thought he was a police officer because I could hear things on the radio," Skains said.

Then there was a knock at the door.

"I opened the door and there was a policeman standing he said." Hello, how are you, I want to talk for a second, "said Skains." I had my dog ​​in my hand and said, "Let me . "I get the dog on a leash and walked out. When I did that, Terry was tied up on the picnic table with handcuffs. "

Skains testified that she noticed two other members are in the vicinity of the corner of his trailer, and the deputies knocked on the door and told him to back the trailer. He followed her inside. Brian Smith, his girlfriend Britney Keith Heller and disappeared into the bathroom. Jökel Skains was lying in bed, hiding under the covers. The officer quickly realized Jökel, and asked him to leave. Skains, Jökel and police then left the trailer. Skains sitting at the picnic table.

The next thing you knew Skains members fought Jökel ground.

13-year-old daughter Jaylin Rhodes Skains, who also testified Friday was taken in tow by Derrick Smith for the entire sequence, but said she distinctly heard Jökel shouted: "They will kill us all"

Skains said she saw one of the officers come Jökel, she told another officer pulled a gun and threatened to Terry Smith and Cheza from Skains dog that bark because the members were presented shoot.

"They put the gun in the face of Terry said he should shoot at him," Skains said. "He said," I just need to get the dog said ... "No, you can not shoot the dog He said:" I will shoot both "

"I try to bring the dog to the silence," Skains continued, "and the door [of the trailer] swings."

Skains she said then looked Brian in his peripheral vision, at the door of the trailer. Then she heard gunshots. Skains said she grabbed the dog and rolled under the picnic table.

"I heard a lot of shooting," she said, "and I cried," Stop! Please stop! "Everything was quiet then I heard Brian say .." There I was shot. "

Skains said she began crawling toward the campers under the picnic table where she had hidden herself as she turned her head around and saw Jökel walking along the side of the trailer. She said Jökel knelt down and took a pistol. Moments later shots and new Skains buried his head in his arms.

"I think Brian had thrown the weapon on the door," she said. [Jökel] picked up. I started to cry, and he would kill to stop, please stop. He began to pull down a policeman. "

Although Skains later said she did not know Jökel shoot a deputy, she confirmed that she saw him the gun barrel down on the floor. Later she noticed a deputy nearby. Deputy David Anthony Bullock, who was also present during the ambush, said in September that he saw a pair of legs shots into the body of Deputy Brandon Nielsen, who had been struck with the first rain balls.

"Then he went quiet," Skains said. She said she grabbed the dog and ran across the street, in the wake of Derrick Smith, where he and his 13-year-old daughter was in the shooting. Skains left the dog out, and ran to her trailer, where they noticed a deputy - probably Jeremy Cheating - blood on the floor. She knelt down beside him.

"He lay there, I asked if he was alright," said Skains. She reached out and stroked her hair and told her help was on the way.

Skains then discovered Terry Smith. Skains member said they would return, and she and Smith returned to their trailer where Brian Smith was on the ground, bleeding from a gunshot wound. She looked at him and said. "Are you crazy"

How Skains began walking towards the fallen deputy, she noted, Derrick Smith and her daughter approached her. She said she pleaded for them to stay away. Skains took the hand of his daughter and took the child to her aunt's trailer. Skains then ran back to the administrator.

Radio continued to crackle as assistant beside him, screamed Skains: "! Quick I'm losing it I have no weapons, hurry up!"

"So," said Skains between bursts of tears, "he stopped breathing."

Only then Skains they said that they had been killed, probably by a bullet Brian Smith.

"They grabbed me," Skains and said "has the ambulance and went to the hospital because I had been killed."

Skains was one of the nine witnesses to testify in court on Friday. Then, in the lobby of the courthouse, Skains cradled the head of his daughter on his lap.

Skains with Britney Keith, who said last month, will be sentenced at the end of the four remaining suspects are on trial, scheduled for mid-2014.