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N.D. (AP) – Defense attorneys for two men accused in a fatal North Dakota shooting say their clients went to a Beulah apartment with loaded guns but did not intend to kill anyone. Prosecutor Ladd Erickson says 29-year-old Richard Whitman and 24-year-old Cody Borner had developed “bad blood” with people in the apartment over drugs, and that up to nine shots were fired during the Jan. 31 scuffle. Whitman and Borner are on trial in Bismarck. Both have pleaded not guilty to a murder conspiracy charge in the death of 22-year-old Mike Padilla in his apartment and the wounding of his 21-year-old brother, Timothy Padilla of Billings, Mont. The trial is expected to last all week.