Jurors in the murder trial of a Newark man charged with participating in the homicide of a man whose body was found behind a North Bergen gas station in 2011 were shown images today of blood stains in a Newark apartment where prosecutors say the man was beaten.
JERSEY CITY -- Jurors in the trial of a Newark man charged with participating in a 2012 homicide were shown images today of blood stains inside an apartment where prosecutors say the victim was beaten before he was dumped behind a North Bergen gas station.
During testimony from a homicide detective in the murder trial of Mark Browne, jurors were also shown a pillow recovered from a Newark apartment that matched the blood-soaked pillow case found over the head of Darryl Williams' body when he was found dead behind the gas station on Tonnelle Avenue near Route 3.
Six people have been charged in Williams' death. One has been convicted, another pleaded guilty and three others are awaiting trial.
On the stand today, Hudson County Prosecutor's Office Homicide Unit Det. Erin Burns used the photos to identify blood on the walls of one of the apartment's bedroom, on boots in the room, on a dresser and on a television screen.
She also identified blood on the apartment's front door, in a hallway and on the back steps, where a blood splotch and a bloody paper towel were also found, according to her testimony.
According to prior testimony, Williams was still alive when he was left in North Bergen, under a mattress that was weighed down with cinder blocks, with his hands bound behind his back and duct tape around his mouth.
Burns held up the pillow case with an image of a football player running down the gridiron and said it was identical to the one found on William's head after he apparently crawled out from under mattress and left a crisscross of blood trail to the location where he died.
As he crawled, the pillowcase became more and more saturated with blood and eventually suffocated, authorities said.
Burns also testified that portions of the apartments' floor and walls appear to have been cleaned, and she displayed a photograph of the kitchen table which was missing one leg. Prosecutors say Williams was beaten with a table leg.
When Daeshawn Jennings was sentenced last year for his part in the killing, authorities said Jennings was asking for money outside of a Newark chicken restaurant when people inside the restaurant offered to pay him to help with a "cleanup."
Jennings said he got into a car with the people who had been in the restaurant, drove to the victim's home, and attacked him with a table leg. After Williams was beaten, he was tied up and driven to the gas station, officials said.
Jennings was sentenced to 18 years in state prison for aggravated manslaughter, while Kathleen Jones was sentenced to 12 years in prison in July after pleading guilty to the same charges.
Also charged in the Williams case were Qudeera Adams, Nydia Mozee, and Latoya Mozee, all of Newark.