CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — A woman who says she was sexually assaulted after delivering Chinese food told a courtroom she thought she was going to die.
Clayton County prosecutors say the men involved in her attack later went on a crime spree in which a taxi driver was murdered and another man was pistol-whipped.
Desmond Nixon, Julius Randle and Ishmael Carter are on trial for the attacks. Carter does not face murder charges in connection with taxi driver's death.
Clayton County Assistant District Attorney Katie Powers says the crime spree began in January 2013. That's when she says the defendants ordered Chinese food delivered to a home in the Brookview subdivision.
The driver testified that when she got there she found out the defendants didn't want food.
"I felt a gun in my stomach or in my side," she told the jury. "'He said, ‘Give me the money (expletive).' I said, ‘I don't have any money.’ And he said I was lying.''
The driver said that's when she was threatened and sexually assaulted. Powers said she later identified her attackers.
Powers said that a couple of weeks later, the trio pistol whipped a man and took his cellphone. A few days later she says they used the stolen cellphone to arrange taxi driver Rosendo Casarrubias Banderas to pick two of them up. She says he was found with a gunshot to the head in his taxi.
The defense told the jury their clients are innocent.
But the delivery driver says the men left her in shock, especially when they threatened her life.
"He told guy number one they were going to kill me. I told him, ‘Please don't kill me, I'm only 19,’" she said.
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