Article: VIDEO RECOUNTS GIRL'S DEATH \ INTERVIEW TAPE PLAYED IN COURT.(News)

Byline: Rob Modic Dayton Daily News

DAYTON -- In a videotaped interview with Clark County sheriff's deputies July 19, 2004, Christian Gabriel repeatedly said he had witnessed, while in a drunken stupor, the death of Erica Baker.

Gabriel said he was a passenger in a van that struck and killed the 9-year-old in February 1999.

"I mean, this stuff ain't getting blamed on me," Gabriel said in the 94-minute tape played Wednesday for jurors at Gabriel's trial in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.

Gabriel, 34, of Springfield is charged with gross abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence. No one has been charged in the girl's death.

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