The band that was playing at O’Neil’s Sports Tavern the night bartender Mike Allred was shot to death stopped playing when screams came from the audience.

Testimony Tuesday centered around the murder of Allred, from Kingsland, on Aug. 24, 2007.

Henry Joe Bray, whose band was playing at O’Neill’s the night of the shooting, described the scene at the bar.

“We were into about the second song and all of a sudden there was a very loud outbreak at the back,” Bray said. “I saw a gun...someone said, ‘Oh my God is it real?’”

Bray fled the bar and headed to the police station. As he did, he claims he saw Paul Devoe, accused of killing six people, enter a blue pick-up truck and drive off.

“I saw him very clearly, I’m quite sure it was him,” Bray said when questioned by Devoe’s attorney.

Devoe is accused of shooting Marble Falls bartender Allred who was shot at O’Neill’s on Main Street. Devoe is alleged to have then driven along FM1431 to Jonestown, shooting another four people. He is also suspected of murdering an elderly woman in Greencastle Pa., en route to his native New York state where he was eventually arrested on Aug. 27, 2007.

The court also heard from members of the Marble Falls Police Department and Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office, their testimony supplemented by graphic images from the crime scenes.

From their testimony, it appears that Allred died on the floor of the bar, a single bullet entering his body at the left side of his upper chest, fracturing a rib and tearing through a major artery- which led to “rapid uncontrollable bleeding.”

There was little emergency medical personnel could do, authorities said.

Travis County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. David Dolinak said he had retrieved a bullet from the corpse of Allred during the autopsy. Dolinak was not asked about the specifications of the bullet, however the prosecution believes it to have been fired from the Jennings .380 caliber pistol they allege Devoe stole several days before Allred’s death from a Burnet home.

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