In Prindel Creek Farm murder trial, eyewitness describes night of shootings

A woman who said she’s best friends with the ex-wife of murder defendant Everett Scott Fuller testified Tuesday, Nov. 3 about the night she saw two men fatally shot.

Fuller, 57, is on trial after being charged with second-degree murder in connection with the December 2024 death of 32-year-old Christopher “Bubba” Clark Jr., who had a romantic relationship with Fuller’s then-wife, Christine.

A previous trial for Fuller ended in a mistrial with a deadlocked jury.

The shooting took place at remote Prindel Creek Farm. Police responded hours after a 911 call for help on a rainy night and, according to testimony, had trouble using cellphones and police radios.

Amy Jewett, called as a witness, told jurors that she is biased against Fuller. She then described what she remembered from the night when Fuller shot Clark and, hours later, when police shot Jewett’s boyfriend, Tyler Holloway, 26.

Holloway’s mother has filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging negligence by an Oregon State Police sergeant and others, and Jewett testified that she has filed a tort claim, which is a filing under civil law that often seeks financial compensation for damages.

Fuller was on an elevated platform nearly 6 feet high when he shot Clark. Defense attorneys have said Clark grabbed the leg of a seated Fuller, who fired out of fear of being pulled down.

Testimony

Jewett testified she met Holloway in November 2024 when she moved onto the property in a shared yurt residence with Christine Fuller, at a time the couple were separated.

Jewett said she had long considered the property a “second home” after living there with her uncle in 1998 and later living in the general area, known as Five Rivers valley.

On the night Fuller shot Clark, he entered a structure on the property known as the Packing Shed where Jewett, Christine Fuller, Clark and Holloway had gathered to play darts, according to testimony.

Jewett told jurors she had never seen Everett Fuller in the recreation area previously. He entered and “said he was just going to watch us play darts.”

“None of us wanted to hang out with Everett,” Jewett said.

With the mood “tense,” Jewett testified Christine Fuller “grabbed her coat, she might have said ‘we should leave.’”

Before the shooting, Jewett said she recalled hearing “words exchanged,” then saw Everett Fuller, on the elevated platform, “kind of standing up out of the chair, leaning forward.”

Jewett said Everett Fuller shot Clark twice in the head.

She described the mood as “just really somber” after the shooting. After several hours, she followed Holloway, who had gone to get some water, to keep watch and “make sure Everett didn’t come back.”

But she said she then heard Holloway curse, and then a gunshot. Following that, there was “just a barrage of gunfire, all kinds of automatic gunfire,” Jewett told jurors.

“I think Everett’s just attacking us, annihilating us,” Jewett said, describing her mistaken belief at the time.

Later, she heard what she understood to be police asking her to come out, but she remained hiding underneath a pool table, fearful that Fuller might shoot her.

Smoke began to fill the room, and, after hearing a loud bang, she noticed Holloway lying on the ground, face down. 

“I go underneath the pool table, turn him over and his eyes are just rolled back in his head, like a dead person’s eyes,” Jewett said. Whispering, she added: “I begged him to please keep breathing.”

“He didn’t,” she said.

“I was under the assumption that Everett shot Tyler for hours, until I realized it was police that ended up shooting him, ’cause we didn’t know they were there,” Jewett said. “They never said they were there.”

Emails

Much of the trial day involved discussions between attorneys and Lane County Circuit Judge Charles Zennaché about what evidence the jury would be allowed to hear.

When the jury did return to hear testimony, near the end of the day Deputy District Attorney Nicholas Geil had Michael Hudson, a Lane County Sheriff’s Office detective, read emails from Everett Fuller to his wife.

Most of the emails were from 2022 during a time when Fuller and the couple’s youngest son, a teenager, were staying in Missouri after Everett Fuller learned of his wife developing a relationship with Clark.

“As a man, I gave my word to Bubba, if he ever tried to get you to touch him again, I would shoot him,” one email stated.

Hudson’s testimony was expected to continue Wednesday. The trial began with jury selection Wednesday, Oct. 28.

Zennaché has previously said he expects to trial to wrap up by Friday.