PORT ANGELES — Jury selection, opening arguments and testimony began Monday in Clallam County Superior Court for the trial of Brian Lee Lester, who has pleaded not guilty to first- and second-degree attempted murder charges related to an incident earlier this year.

According to a Port Angeles Police Department probable cause report, Lester, 39, allegedly approached a black Kia Rio parked at the 9/11 Memorial Water Park on Francis Street in which his former long-term partner Dorothy Hunt-Wood and his cousin Michael Lynch were sleeping on the morning of March 27.

Lester allegedly reached through the driver’s side window and began punching Lynch in the face. Lynch got out of the vehicle and began fighting. When Lynch got back in the vehicle and attempted to drive away, Lester allegedly shot

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