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killer sent to grand jury  Posted: Updated:  CHATTANOOGA (WRCB)
-- Both legs amputated at the knee, confined to a wheelchair,
Laura Lee Morgan, 48, has claimed she was only defending herself
when she killed her long-term, live-in boyfriend, James 'Jimmy
Masingill, with blows from a crowbar.   But she would barely
raise her head as she listened to Chattanooga Police Detective
Lucas Fuller describe what investigators found after answering
her 911 call to their home on Orchard Knob Avenue January 26.
"His face was mangled," Det. Fuller testifies. "Large amounts of
blood were casting, as we call it, across the ceiling and
walls."  Morgan is charged with first-degree murder and
especially aggravated robbery in Masingill's death.  "The cause
of death was blunt force trauma to the head," Det. Fuller reads
from the Medical Examiner's investigative report.  Further, Det.
Fuller testifies, the Medical Exam