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A Lansing man is on trial for the murder of his girlfriend and her cousin.

Dennis Whaley claims the shooting was an accident, stating he did not mean to pull the trigger.

An arrest warrant for Whaley was issued for a domestic violence incident involving Christine Cambric, but was not served by police in the months before she was killed.

LANSING — A man charged with murdering his longtime girlfriend and her male cousin last year in Lansing described the shootings as an accident, saying he didn't mean to pull the trigger of an assault-style rifle that fired eight rounds in the basement of a home on Woodrow Avenue.

Dennis Joshua Whaley took the witness stand in his own defense on Sept. 22, telling a jury Jason McKenzie grabbed the barrel of the rifle, causing it to

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