“I really wish I would have done something,” Christopher Fuhrman told Chaska Police Detective Jon Kehrberg the day after Nancy Everson was shot to death in her Chaska home. “This could have all been avoided.”

Fuhrman’s videotaped statement from Jan. 16 was shown to jurors as testimony in the state’s case against Grant Everson continued Wednesday. Fuhrman watched the footage stoically from a seat in the back of the courtroom.

Everson faces charges of first-degree premeditated murder in the fatal shooting of his mother Nancy and second-degree attempted murder of his father Tom. He also faces charges of aiding and abetting murder in the first and second degree related to Nancy’s death. Nancy was found shot to death in the Eversons’ Chaska residence on Jan. 15.

Everson’s friend Joel Beckrich has pleaded guilty to first- and second-degree murder in the case. The judge has not yet accepted his plea.

Fuhrman was among the 12 witnesses to take the stand for the prosecution Wednesday in the second day of testimony. Fuhrman noted that his testimony was part of a grant of immunity issued in July when Judge Philip Kanning overturned a Grand Jury’s murder indictment and the state was forced to drop its case against Fuhrman.

Fuhrman told the court that he and his friends Everson, Beckrich and Michael Gulden had talked about going to Amsterdam.

“We wanted a change,” said Fuhrman. “We thought it would be nice.”

When further pressed, Fuhrman admitted that the city’s especially “liberal views on marijuana” were the driving factor behind their discussion of moving there.

Fuhrman recounted the events leading up to Nancy’s death, including Everson’s frustration with his parents, who were “riding him way too hard and treating him horribly.”

“Grant said he had hit a level below rock-bottom,” said Fuhrman. “He wanted to kill his parents.”

Fuhrman told the court that he was in the Burnsville townhouse that he shared with Beckrich when Everson brought over a shotgun on Jan. 14. He listened as Beckrich and Everson hatched a plan to go the house in the middle of the night to slit Tom and Nancy’s throats. Fuhrman even admitted to suggesting a parking spot for them, he testified.

“It wasn’t a good spot,” said Furhman. “I just wanted to get them off my back. I really didn’t want anything to do with it.”

But Fuhrman noted that he was roped into providing an alibi for Everson and Beckrich, so when he was initially questioned by police, he lied as to where Everson had been on Jan. 15. He later changed his story and took one police officer outside to divulge the truth.

“I told (Officer Norm Prusinski) that Joel Beckrich shot Nancy Everson,” Fuhrman testified. “It needed to be told.”

Also on the stand Wednesday was Michael “Dip” Gulden. Gulden was the sole juvenile suspect involved in the case. He pleaded guilty to charges of aiding and abetting in April, and has been at the Dakota County Juvenile Service Center in a treatment program ever since.

Gulden told the court that he was also in the Burnsville townhouse when Everson brought the shotgun over. He said he witnessed Everson loading shotgun shells into the gun.

He said that while he was vaguely aware of the murder plan, he didn’t have any part in the actual planning, opting to stay in the downstairs level of the townhouse to play video games.

He also lied to officers at first, providing an alibi for Everson, but eventually told police about the shotgun.Gulden said he was concerned when being interviewed by police, because Beckrich was being interviewed on the same floor of the townhouse.

“He had just killed somebody,” Gulden said. “And I didn’t think he’d have any trouble doing it again.”

Gulden testified that Beckrich had reiterated several times to the group that “anybody that said anything to anyone would be dead.”

The prosecution called several law enforcement officers to the stand Wednesday to testify as to what they found when they finally entered the Everson residence on Jan. 15.

Carver County Deputy Dewitt Meier shuddered when he recalled the scene inside the home.

“I saw a large piece of human bone lying on the floor which in my experience could have only come from the skull,” he said. “And I saw a pair of pale white legs sticking out into the hallway.”

The jury was shown a picture of the hallway scene from that morning as Meier noted the shotgun shells near the body and the “piece of bone that was a considerable distance down the hall.”

Grant’s girlfriend at the time, Mary Severson, was also called to take the stand Wednesday. Nervously, Severson recounted the day before Nancy’s death when Nancy and Tom contacted her for help in reaching their son.

“I was concerned that they were concerned enough to come to me for my help,” she said.

Severson told the court that she drove to the Burnsville townhouse to talk to Everson. Together, Severson and Everson returned to the Eversons’ Chaska home where Severson overheard bits and pieces of a conversation between Everson and his parents.

“Nancy was her usual chipper self, but concerned,” Severson recalled. “Tom was angry, but then concerned. Grant didn’t say much.”

Severson recalled later that night, after they had eaten dinner with Everson’s parents and watched a movie together, when Tom and Nancy came into Everson’s bedroom.

“Tom came in with a gun and a gun holster and was shaking it at Grant,” she said, adding that Tom asked Grant several times if he knew how it had got in Nancy’s hat. After Everson denied knowing anything about the gun, Severson asked him one more time when they were alone.

“I asked him if he really didn’t know how the gun got there,” she recalled. “He looked me right in the eyes and said ‘I don’t know.’”

Severson barely made it out of the courtroom doors following her testimony before she broke down into tears. Her sobs could be heard back in the courtroom.

Several other witnesses also testified Wednesday including Everson’s 24-year-old sister Nicole, the chief academic officer of Hennepin Technical College where Everson was enrolled and Chaska police officers Jamie Personius and Michael Duzan.

Joel Beckrich is expected to testify Wednesday morning. The court has ordered extra security to be on hand for his appearance in court.