![]() Their young sons, ages 5 and 8, saw it happen, prosecutors said. Officials claimed the actor waited with a gun for his wife to come home and shot her once in the back and then in her legs. Prosecutors said Michael Jace became obsessed with a belief that his wife April Jace wanted another man. Michael Jace, who played an officer on the FX series "The Shield," is charged with killing his wife back in May of 2014. LOS ANGELES - Opening statements were made in the murder trial of TV actor Michael Jace in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday. Jace, who is best known for his role as Los Angeles police Officer Julien Lowe in "The Shield,'' also appeared in such films as "Forrest Gump,'' "Boogie Nights'' and "Planet of the Apes.Actor Michael Jace taunted his wife before shooting her, prosecutors said during the opening statements of his murder trial. The actor also told detectives he had been drinking that day and that "there were moments'' when he contemplated taking his life. He told police that she lunged at him, he pushed her away and she spun around before the shooting, and that all he intended to do was "just shoot her in the leg,'' not kill her. ![]() ![]() In an audio-recorded interview with police that was played for the jury, Jace said that he was holding the gun when his wife returned home from a baseball game with their sons but that she didn't immediately notice the firearm. This is why we have voluntary manslaughter.'' Jace's lawyer told jurors that there was no evidence that Jace was brewing or plotting the demise of his wife of nine years, and that the prosecution had "oversold this case'' by pursuing a first-degree murder conviction. But he questioned whether the actor would have premeditated the shooting knowing that the children would be there. ![]() One of Jace's trial attorneys, Jamon Hicks, conceded that Jace shot his wife once in the back and then twice in the legs. Texas sends eighth bus with migrants to Los Angeles ![]()
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