2 Set for Trial in Gvsu Advisor Slaying

CRIMES. THANK YOU. TWO MEN WHO SAY THEY ONLY WANTED TO ROB THEIR VICTIM ARE HEADED TO TRIALY FOR THE *** OF GVSIS U ADVISOR ZAP ATO. MARC THOMPSON IS HERE TO SHOW US Reporter: SEF ISERAL TESTIFIED INCLUDING HIS NEIGHBOR, WHO SAYS HE WAS FIND ENOUGH TO PUT UP ONE OF THE SUSPECTS AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY HE WOULD TURN ON HIS LONG-TERM MENTOR. THEY BOTH THEY WENT TO ROB AND THEY TOLD TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF WHO DID THE KILLING. TJ SAYS HE STAYED OUTSIDE WHILE SCOTT WENT IN AND SCOTT SAYS TJ WENT IN FIRST AND HE FOLLOWED, CLAIMING TJ PUNCHED AND STABBED ZAP ATA WHEN HE DIDN'T GIVE UP HIS WALLET. Reporter: HE SAID HE THREW ZAP ATA DOWN INTO THE BASEMENT AND SAID HES BEGGING FOR HELP AND TJ BEAT HIM WITH A METALLA ROD. OF THE THEY TOOK HIS KEYS AND DROVE OFF IN HIS CAR. THEY TRIED GETTING MONEY FROM AN ATM AND WERE UNSUCCESSFUL. THEY LEFT THE CAR IN AN APARTMENT COMPLEX AND DUMP THE KEY WALLET AND KNIFE DOWN A STORM TRAIN. POLICE RECOVERED THE WALLET AND KEYS, BUT NOT THE KNIFE. HE SAID ZAP ATA ACTED AS A LONG TIME MENTOR TO TJ. IT IS DISGUSTING SOMEBODY RECALLED HURT SOMEONE THAT HELPED HIM THE WAY SANTIAGO DID. AND PROSECUTORS SAY IT DOESN'T MATTER WHICH SUSPECT IS TELLING THE TRUTH. YOU ARE JUST AS GUILTY: Reporter: THEY WERE DESPERATE, BROKE AND HAD NOR TO LIVE AND THEY BOTH STAND