LAS VEGAS (AP) — Longtime Las Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton told a jury he fired a gunshot to scare away two burglars that he and his wife and daughter encountered fleeing their home a year ago.
The 77-year-old "Danke Shoen" singer testified Tuesday that he shot once into the air with a five-shot revolver he carries with him.
Newton remembered his wife, Kathleen Newton, yelling for him to shoot as one of the fleeing men stopped to pick up a duffel bag he dropped while hitting a family dog with a tire iron.
He said the men disappeared through a hedge toward a wall on his large property in Las Vegas.
The testimony came during trial for 22-year-old Weslie Martin, who prosecutors say was one of the burglars.
