A witness testified Wednesday that the man accused of killing Chandra Levy had scratches and a fat lip around the time the intern was killed in 2001.
Sheila Phillips, property manager of the apartments where defendant Ingmar Guandique lived, said he stayed with her and her boyfriend in early May 2001. A September 2010 grand jury statement that defense attorney Santha Sonenberg read from in D.C. Superior Court said Phillips described Guandique’s appearance as being “consistent with having a fight with his girlfriend.”
Investigators say Guandique raped and killed Levy while she was jogging in Rock Creek Park on May 1, 2001. Her remains were found there a year later.
On Wednesday, Phillips said Guandique told her he had been in a domestic dispute with his live-in girlfriend. Phillips said he stayed in her apartment for a few days because he was an acquaintance of her boyfriend.
The same grand jury statement from September had Phillips recalling the night Guandique stayed with her and her boyfriend as being two to three weeks before a May 7 burglary incident. She said in court Wednesday afternoon that she did not recall saying it was a few weeks before, and that the defendant had stayed with her during the first week of May.
