Nathan Tyler Jr. needed to use Alicia Deans car to kidnap his ex-girlfriend, Kayla Turner testified Wednesday.
So the then-19-year-old Turner and her boyfriend Michael Williams, 33, agreed to help Tyler, 45, stage a robbery in which theyd tie up Deans and leave her in an abandoned house. she said.
No one was supposed to get hurt, Turner said during the first day of testimony in Tylers first-degree murder trial in Columbus County.
In exchange for her cooperation, Turner will plead to second-degree murder, armed robbery and kidnapping in the April 28, 2015, shooting death of Deans. On Monday, Williams pleaded to the same deal.