LACONIA — “I just grabbed it and started attacking him,” Hassan Sapry told State Police Lt. Steve McAuley, commander of the major crime unit.

“The last four days, all I did was sleep and cry,” Sapry said. “That’s all I did.”

Sapry, 27, is charged with nine counts including first- and second-degree murder in the 2019 killing of Wilfred Guzman Sr. in his Blueberry Lane Apartment.

Spary is on trial for the second time in Belknap County Superior Court and, on Thursday, jurors heard an audio recording captured during his interview with State Police, conducted at the Laconia Police Department following his arrest at his family’s home on Pleasant Street.

His first trial, in 2022, ended abruptly when Superior Court Justice Elizabeth Leonard declared a mistrial for unknown reasons.

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