Friend testifies against man accused of 2019 Reedley murder

REEDLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- With an accused slayer warring for his innocence, the man's puerility person took the basal successful tribunal connected Tuesday arsenic helium helped prosecutors physique their case.

"What was the crushed for picking Angel up that day?" Fresno County Deputy District Attorney Liz Owen asked the friend.

"We were going to spell retired looking for trouble," the antheral said.

Action News cannot sanction oregon amusement him.

He was driving with Angel Romero successful March 2019, the aforesaid time investigators recovered Andres Cardenas dormant successful a Reedley orchard.

"What did you hear?" Owen asked.

"Gunshots ... Three oregon four, I believe," the witnesser said.

Prosecutors person charged Romero with murder. He has denied the complaint and pleaded not guilty.

And connected Tuesday, Romero doubled down connected that plea arsenic helium rejected an connection from prosecutors, saying helium wanted to spell guardant with the hearing.

"I conscionable asked him, 'What did you do?' and helium said, 'I changeable him,'" the witnesser testified that Romero told him.

The witnesser says it was a random enactment of unit that went excessively far, testifying that helium was precocious connected meth and saying the program was lone to rob idiosyncratic for their money.

"I didn't deliberation helium was going to bash thing similar that," helium said.

The man's grounds comes aft years of saying helium knew thing astir what happened.

He has present struck a woody with prosecutors, who agreed not to usage his grounds against him.

Romero's defence lawyer pushed back.

"And past erstwhile you figured retired you could astir apt get distant with this by pointing astatine idiosyncratic else, past you said you were there," defence lawyer Charles Barrett said.

Barrett continued poking holes successful the witness' story, but successful the end, the justice sided with prosecutors, and said determination is capable grounds to instrumentality the lawsuit to trial.

Romero is present owed backmost aboriginal this month.

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