I will wager that JA s story regarding the use of a knife and gun will run something like this:
The knife was on the bathroom sink counter OR perhaps in her pocket SIMPLY because it had been used in rope tying and bondage tricks during sex.
The gun was in her purse OR on the sink since she had brought the weapon for self-protection on this excursion across the desert from Northern CA to Pasadena and then on to Mesa - ALONE. ( She had to steal the weapon from Grandpa since she otherwise would be defenseless in her travels) While TA showered JA began dressing and putting on her make up at the sink where a mirror was available. The gun conveniently and luckily was close at hand ( JA will use the word serendipity in her testimony!)
SO. . . when TA lunged and embraced her in a malevolent hug they both fell backwards and tumbled. JA then managed to get the gun from the counter and shoot him once. The bullet merely dazed him and in his rage TA maintained the murderous offensive. She fired again but the gun jammed. Then she reached in the pants and found her knife available for defense. She thrust first into the chest. He screamed at her in pain and twisted around all the while JA kept up the forward thrusts which included the blows on TAs backside.
TA got her in his clutch while fighting in the bedroom. Finally with one more superhuman effort JA slashed forward onto her pursuers neck and scored a final lethal blow to this would be killer.
This is the outline of her defense. She will of course have little memory for precise specifics since the melee after the fact was one big awful whirl.
Whose owned the camera?
Seems to me that he was crawling on all fours towards the bedroom ... perhaps he was going for his phone when she cut his arteries.