. >> laura has already left home and is dating 21-year-old college student, james kendall. cally. >> i'm jason kravetz. i'm a retired police captain with the laguna beach police department. laura and jim spent the night at jim kendall's house in laguna beach. jim had told her the night before that he, quote, didn't want to go steady any more and wanted to break up and see other women. >> but when he tells laura he wants out, things go horribly wrong. >> he, the next morning, drives her to her home to get a change of clothes so she can go to the high school. so laura got out of the truck, and she's walking this direction across legion street, and she goes over to where she lives. her landlord kept a handgun inside of his home. she knew that. she steals the handgun. she goes back over to the truck where jim is inside, smoking and listening to the radio. the passenger door is open. he must have seen the gun at the last minute. but she fires. shoots him. after she fired to gun, he says, you shot me. and she responded back to him, yeah, i did. >> she apparently decided that she d