For the second time in eight months, Sergio Berben sat on a witness stand staring at a man he said was responsible for the murder of his girlfriend.
“Andrea was the person I planned to spend the rest of my life with,” Berben, 22, told jurors Tuesday, before pointing directly at Adrian Cosby, the man prosecutors say fired the fatal shot. “That’s the guy that flipped our world completely upside down.”
In February, Berben’s testimony helped seal the fate of George Oshane Walton, 24. After a two-week trial, jurors determined that though Walton never fired a weapon, he took part in a crime that led to the shooting death of high school senior Andrea Camps-Lacayo. He was convicted of first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder and attempted armed robbery with a firearm and sentenced to life in prison.
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Tuesday morning, the trial of Walton’s friend Adrian Cosby began with opening statements and Berben’s testimony. Like Walton, Cosby, 23, is facing charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and attempted robbery with a firearm.