At trial, both victim and accused say the other provoked the shooting
from: Times Daily

TUSCUMBIA, June 16th, 2008 … David R. Page told jurors Monday he feared he was going to bleed to death after being shot by his neighbor outside a residence on Allsboro Road on April 1, 2007.

"I thought I was dying," Page testified during the opening day of Ricky Lynn Lambert's attempted murder trial in Colbert County Circuit Court.

Lambert is accused of shooting Page three times.

Page, 60, testified that one of the bullets severed an artery in his leg. "It was bleeding like water coming out of a garden hose," he told jurors.

Lambert is accused of shooting Page after the two men began arguing outside Lambert's residence.

During questioning by Colbert District Attorney Bryce Graham Jr., Page testified he was only trying to be a good neighbor when he went to Lambert's home to tell him that his dog was running loose and he feared it was going to be run over.

"On the Wednesday before he shot me on Sunday, he told me he was getting attached to the dog and if something happened to it he did not know what he would do," Page told the jury of eight men and five women, including one alternate.

Lambert responded to being told about his dog running loose by slapping Page, according to the victim's testimony.

Page told jurors that he responded to the slap by punching Lambert, who then pulled a pistol from the waist band of his pants and shot him.

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