The hearing for the man accused of killing George Tiller begins

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Expect a lot of coverage in the papers and TV newscasts today, tonight and tomorrow on the court hearing for Scott Roeder, the man accused of assassinating Wichita late-term abortion provider George Tiller while he was ushering church.

The Wichita Eagle‘s Ron Sylvester is Tweeting the crap out of the pretrial hearing so you can follow along in real time. Already on the stand today is Gary Hoepner, who was also ushering that Sunday and witnessed the shooting.

From Sylvester’s Tweets of Hoepner’s testimony:

“He walked over and put a gun right up next to George’s head and shot

it. It was a loud pop. I wasn’t sure if it was a cap gun …

“I saw George fall. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, it was surreal.”

“It happened so fast. But he put the gun right up to his head.”

There’ll be a lot more as the day goes on.