came into the room with their guns drawn and began
“pistol-whipp[ing]” the victim. Evans said that, as she ran out of the room while the
Defendant and Hodges were hitting the victim, the victim was covering his face and trying
to get up off of the bed. Evans recalled that, after the Defendant and Hodges came out of the
victim’s room, but before they got into the Impala, Hodges threw the guns into the bushes
at the back of the Cumberland Grille restaurant where the car was parked. Evans recalled
that she and Santos were in the back seat of the Impala, the Defendant was in the passenger
seat, and Hodges drove the car away from the motel.

        Evans testified that Hodges drove to a wooded area and  On cross-examination, Evans agreed that, while she was in the victim’s room, the
victim left several times to sell drugs to various people. Evans denied that she and Hodges
devised the plan to rob the victim and stated that the Defendant told her that, initially, he and
Hodges planned to rob the victim on their own.

       On redirect examination, Evans testified that, when the Defendant and Hodges entered
the room, the Defendant wore a white bandana and Hodges wore a red bandana to cover their
faces.

       Dr. John Davis, an Assistant Medical Examiner, testified that he conducted the
autopsy on the victim’s body. Dr. Davis determined that the cause of death was a gunshot
wound to the head, and the manner