NEWARK, N.J.
(AP) — The prosecution has rested in the final trial stemming from the
murders of three college friends in a Newark schoolyard.
Gerardo
Gomez was one of six men and boys charged in the 2007 slayings of Dashon
Harvey, Iofemi (eye-OH'-feh-mee) Hightower and Terrance "T.J." Aeriel.
Gomez
turned 15 on the night of the murders. His attorney has contended that
he was present at the attack but played no part in it.
But
prosecutors presented a confessed accomplice who said Gomez took part in
the robbery that preceded the murders and even pointed a gun at the
victims that jammed.
The Star-Ledger of Newark
(http://bit.ly/XvN7wk) reports Shahid Baskerville also testified Gomez
was a member of the MS-13 street gang.
Baskerville and four other defendants have pleaded guilty or been convicted.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
