KNOXVILLE, Tenn (WVLT) -- "Do you not think that if they would've put a gun in her hand, one of two things would've happened: She'd still be here to talk to us, or she'd have took one of them with her."

Channon Christian's father isn't staying quiet anymore.

For the first time since the case against Eric Boyd began, Gary Christian talked to Volunteer TV News Court Reporter Rob Pratt.

Christian told Pratt someone reminded him over the weekend that Channon doesn't have a voice anymore, and he needed to be her voice.

Gary Christian's statement this morning was in reponse to what Lemaricus Davidson's girlfriend said in court testimony Friday. Daphne Sutton testified that she was told that Channon was forced to shoot and kill her boyfriend, Christopher Newsom.

Christian says that's ludicrous. He says Channon had been trained about guns, and knew how to use one.

He says he was really irked that the media chose to report that detail as the main focus of some coverage on Friday.

Click the video link above to watch his whole unedited statement

Testimony in the second week of the trial against Boyd is continuing at this hour. Boyd is not charged in the murders or the carjacking, but he is charged with being an accessory. Prosecutors are trying to prove that he knew about the crimes, but still helped one of the suspects, Davidson escape, and did nothing to help police.

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