Breaking up with his girlfriend hit the man accused of killing Sam Graham hard, court heard Tuesday.

“ I believe so, yes,” Semiah Lewis told defense counsel David Bayliss on the sixth day of the first-degree murder trial of her twin brother, Montana Lewis.

“ He was definitely a lot more angry,” she said. Lewis didn’t see Montana as often because he was out of their home more following the end of his dating relationship with Kadence Syrette in the summer 2020.

“ He drank a lot,” she said, adding Montana was also using marijuana. “He seemed sad.”

Semiah was not aware of her brother drinking or using drugs on Nov. 12, 2020, the day of Graham’s death. She and Graham were dating. Semiah did remember Montana was in an all-terrain vehicle collision shortly before Nov. 12, but couldn’t reme

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