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911 call, testimony stir more emotions in brothers' boat deaths trial
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Words of panic pierced a still courtroom Wednesday, as jurors, attorneys and observers listened to a nearly hourlong call to dispatch the night of a fatal Lake Lanier boating accident. On June 18, 2012, Kristi Berrett was on a pontoon boat with her friends and family when Paul J. Bennett’s fishing boat struck the front of the pontoon, killing two of her friend’s sons, Jake Prince, 9, and Griffin Prince, 13. “We were just going with our lights on,” Berrett told the dispatch operator.