Testimony turns to path of bullet that hit the roof of Finicum's car.

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Testimony in the trial of FBI agent W. Joseph Astarita turned Friday to how forensic investigators worked to identify the path and source of a bullet that struck the roof of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum's truck.

Astarita is accused of lying to conceal that he fired two shots at the truck at the moment Finicum stepped out of the driver's seat with his hands in the air.

Finicum, the spokesman for the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016, had just crashed into a snowbank on the west side of U.S. 395 to avoid a police roadblock on Jan. 26, 12016.

One of Astarita's shots hit the roof and the other missed, investigators said. Finicum moments later was fatally shot by two state police SWAT officers after he was seen reaching into an interior pocket of his jacket for a loaded 9mm Ruger, investigators said.

The trial is in its second week. The government plans to wrap up its case with two more experts and have Finicum's truck towed to the courthouse garage for jurors to examine Monday. Astarita's lawyers then will present their defense....


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