Beauregard Identified as Shooter by Victim : Jurisprudence: Witness testifies against former Cal State Northridge football player on trial in San Bernardino on two counts of attempted murder.

Von E. Thompson in testimony Wednesday identified former Cal State Northridge football player Jonathan Beauregard as the man who shot him in the chest and arm last year outside a San Bernardino bar.

On the first day of Beauregard’s trial in San Bernardino Superior Court on two counts of attempted murder, Thompson testified that he sat in his truck outside the Elks Lodge talking with Dunyella D. Smith at about 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 29, 1994 when Beauregard started shooting.

At the time Thompson was a security guard at the nightclub and his work attire included a bullet-proof vest. Thompson was shot in the chest and right arm, and Smith in the hip.

Thompson testified that as Beauregard approached his truck that night, it was clear Smith knew him. At the time, Smith was Beauregard’s former girlfriend and the mother of his two children.

“I noticed they were making eye contact and I asked her, ‘Do you know him,’ ” Thompson testified. “She said, ‘That’s my baby’s daddy.’ ”

Thompson pointed from the witness stand to Beauregard and identified him as the man who shot him that night.

“There’s no doubt,” Thompson said.

Beauregard’s defense attorney, Greg Waitman, said in his opening statement Wednesday that Beauregard will take the stand.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Cheryl Kersy told the jury that, “a tragic story goes with this case.” It consists, Kersy said in her opening statement, of a tumultuous relationship between Beauregard and Smith.

Kersy mentioned two previous incidents--in April and June of 1994--in which Smith told police that Beauregard attacked her.

Out of the jury’s presence, Waitman tried to get the incidents excluded from the trial, but Judge W. Robert Fawke denied the motion, saying they are relevant because, “They were beatings or physical contact and threats.”

Expected to testify today for the prosecution is Darrell Butler, a security guard at the club who called police after the attack and drove Thompson to the hospital.