Assistant District Attorney Kevin Howard says Hernandez-Payero was smoking marijuana laced with heroin with his 18-year-old cousin, Laney Payero, and a 16-year-old friend, Xavier Rodriguez-Colon, on July 18, 2007. About 3:30 a.m. they decided to rob McDonald's.
Officials say Rodriguez-Colon fired the shot that killed 40-year-old Shawnee Koch of Reading. He has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and is expected to testify at the Hernandez-Payero trial.
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