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 BELEM, Brazil (AP) - The gunman convicted of killing Dorothy Stang recanted previous testimony and claimed the rancher now on trial for giving orders to kill the American nun and rainforest defender did not offer him money to do it.
Testifying for the defense Monday, Rayfran das Neves Sales told the court he acted out of rage when he fired six shots into Stang at close range on a muddy stretch of road in the Amazon rainforest in February 2005.
"She (Stang) spoke in a loud voice and at that moment I felt threatened," said Sales, adding he fled after the killing to Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura's ranch because it was the only place to run. "When I got there he asked, did I tell you to do this and I told him 'no.'"
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