Stars Use 4-Goal Second Period To Dominate Blue Jackets 5-1Joe Pavelski scored his team-high 18th goal of the season as one of five Dallas players with a goal and an assist, and the Stars scored four times in 6½ minutes in the second period to beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-1 on Saturday night.<doc-sep>DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A mother’s tears mark day one of testimony in a murder for hire plot that left a Dallas dentist dead. Prosecutors say Dr. Kendra Hatcher’s new boyfriend had an obsessive ex, Brenda Delgado. She is accused of hiring the gunman, Kristopher Love. Love is facing the death penalty is convicted. But, before prosecutors laid out how the crime was committed. Prosecutor Kevin Brooks made certain that jurors remained focused on who was lost. “I’ve always said in the past that I have children who wore halos on their heads,” said Dr. Hatcher’s mother, Bonnie Jameson. But, clearly Jameson’s heart was broken in September of 2015, when Hatcher earned her wings, too soon. Jurors wiped away tears along with Jameson as she talked about how she learned that her daughter, the pediatric dentist, was killed. “No, no, not Kendra!” she recalled for jurors. “What do you mean she’s shot? And Jamie said, ‘she didn’t make it.’ ” Jameson told jurors that the family was “devastated” by the loss, also sharing that Hatcher had planned to bring her new love interest home to the Plains, Illinois, area to meet the family later that fall. Fall, she told jurors, was her daughter’s favorite time of year. But, her new love interest’s ex, had different ideas: all of them evil. “She wanted me to beat her to death with a bat,” testified a cousin Moses Martinez. Martinez told jurors that he tried to warn family members that Delgado was trying to have her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend killed but, he wasn’t believed. Prosecutor Kevin Brooks told jurors that after shopping around for a killer, Delgado struck a deal with Kristopher Love, agreeing to pay him in cash and drugs for eliminating the stranger that she viewed as a rival. Jurors also heard from Dr. Ricardo Paniagua, Hatcher’s new love interest who was waiting in her apartment while she was being ambushed in the parking garage below. Dr. Paniagua told jurors that he had noticed Delgado “popping up” as places where he was jogging or having dinner, but dismissed the incidents as “coincidence”, not realizing that Delgado was dangerous, until it was too late. “I kept asking repeatedly, ‘is Kendra okay? I became even more specific, I said: is she still alive?’ ” recalled Dr. Paniagua when bracing for the explanation of why Hatcher wasn’t responding to his texts. Love is facing the death penalty if convicted. Delgado is slated to go on trial next year; but, will not face the death penalty because of an extradition arrangement with Mexico. Testimony resumes Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. in the 363rd District Court before Judge Tracy Holmes.<doc-sep>Kristopher Love was the member of the trio accused in the 2015 murder of a Dallas dentist who suggested shooting the woman would be the easiest way to kill her, according to Crystal Cortes, who's admitted being the getaway driver in the slaying. Cortes, testifying at alleged triggerman Love's capital murder trial, said she and Love were hired to kill dentist Kendra Hatcher by the slaying's mastermind, Brenda Delgado. Hatcher was dating Delgado's ex-boyfriend, Richard Paniagua, at the time. Hatcher was fatally shot in her Dallas apartment parking garage in September 2015, a murder that rocked the Dallas community. Paniagua, who testified Tuesday he and Delgado remained “platonic friends” after they broke up in February 2015, said he met Hatcher in May 2015 and their relationship soon became serious. They planned to leave Sept. 3, 2015, for a vacation in Mexico. But Hatcher was killed the night before they were set to leave. Paniagua said he was waiting in Hatcher's apartment when she was killed and he learned of her death from one of the apartment building’s lobby employees, the Dallas News reported. “She hated her. She didn’t want anything to do with her,” Cortes said of Delgado, according to FOX4 News. “She knew where she lived. She wanted to do away with Kendra.” Cortes was originally charged with capital murder. She pleaded guilty last week to a reduced charge of murder in exchange for her testimony against Delgado and Love. She is expected to receive a 35-year prison sentence. The 26-year-old told jurors she helped find the murder weapon and took turns following Hatcher from her apartment to work for more than two weeks to figure out her daily routine. She was paid $500 to act as the getaway driver. “It was planned to be a murder and to look like a robbery gone bad,” Cortes said, adding the group considered several ways to kill Hatcher, including using a syringe or a baseball bat. She said it was Love who said shooting Hatcher would be the easiest, the Dallas News reported. MEMBER OF MURDER-FOR-HIRE TRIO BEHIND DALLAS-AREA DENTIST'S SLAYING SET FOR TRIAL, COPS SAY The day of the murder, Love was hiding in the back of the Jeep that Cortes drove into Hatcher’s parking garage. When they spotted Hatcher entering, Love jumped out. “He exits the vehicle and then I hear Kendra scream, ‘Help, help. Help me!’ And then I heard the shot fired,” Cortes testified. “And I back up out of the parking space that I was in, and he enters the vehicle.” Cortes was seen on surveillance footage from the parking garage. During her testimony Tuesday, Cortes admitted to lying and changing her story several times when she was initially questioned by police. She said she decided to tell the truth after her mother died last November. Testimony against Love is set to continue Wednesday. Delgado, who fled to Mexico after she was questioned by police and extradited back to the U.S. in 2016, was also charged with capital murder. Her trial has not been scheduled.<doc-sep>
Kristopher Love is accused of being the hitman in a murder-for-hire plot to kill a popular dentist. The capital murder trial of Kristopher Love is underway in Dallas. Love is accused of being the hitman in a murder-for-hire plot to kill a popular dentist. Prosecutors put the victim’s pictures up in the courtroom for the jury to see. The first witness they called to the stand was Dr. Kendra Hatcher’s mother. She recalled the moment she learned her daughter had been murdered. “I said, 'No, no, not Kendra' and they said she was shot. I’m like, 'What do you mean she is shot?' She didn’t make it,” said Bonnie Jameson. Dr. Hatcher was a pediatric dentist who had fallen in love with another doctor, a dermatologist named Dr. Ricardo Paniagua. They had dated about six months. “The relationship progressed quickly. We started a wedding fund,” said Paniagua. Prosecutors say what Dr. Hatcher didn’t know was that Dr. Panigua’s ex-girlfriend, Brenda Delgado, wanted him back and was willing to kill for him. "Evidence will show Brenda could not let go, she followed him and stalked him,” said Prosecutor Kevin Brooks. Prosecutors say she plotted Dr. Hatcher’s murder. They claim Delgado tried to hire several people, including her roommate to kill her. “She said she would buy me a car and give me $12,000," said Jennifer Escobar. No one would do it until they say she met a woman named Crystal Cortes, who connected Delgado to this man, Kristopher Love. "Kristopher Love says yes for drugs and money and starts surveillance,” said Brooks. Prosecutors say the trio stalked Dr. Hatcher for two weeks and then on Sept. 2, 2015, Love and Cortes drove to the victim’s apartment in Uptown. They got video of them in the getaway car. Prosecutors say Love walked to Dr. Hatcher’s car as she pulled into the garage and shot her in the back of the head. Prosecutors say they found the gun used to kill Dr. Hatcher in Love’s car and he dropped the gun clip at the scene of the crime. They matched them.