A day after seeing one of the many fliers that asked "Who killed David Holt," Ms. Wadley called the police to tell what she overhead Carlston W. Coleman say in July 1998.

Mr. Coleman and Ronald Coleman Jr., who are not related, have pleaded innocent to charges including the kidnapping of Mr. Holt, 45, on June 21, 1998, after $63,000 in cash was taken from the store. They also are charged with violating the state's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law.

Ms. Wadley testified that one afternoon in July 1998, she overheard Carlston Coleman tell two other men that he and his girlfriend were trying to hide out from the FBI because agents wanted to question them about the "Sam's man" robbery. One of the other men said Mr. Coleman shouldn't be worried if he didn't do it, Ms. Wadley testified.

"(Mr. Coleman) said he was the driver, that his two partners did it," Ms. Wadley testified.

The Richmond County Superior Court jury also heard Wednesday from Brenda Lyons, whose stepsister dated Carlston Coleman, also called "C.C." The day she heard the news about Mr. Holt's abduction from the store and his slaying in Aiken County, Mr. Coleman was there, she testified.

"C.C. made a statement, they'll be a (expletive) fool if they think they're catching" me, Ms. Lyons testified. On cross-examination by Mr. Coleman's attorney, Ms. Lyons insisted she had told the sheriff's investigator in a pretrial tape-recorded interview about that statement. It is not in a transcript of that recording, however.

Testimony from Temetrious Williams on Wednesday put Carlston Coleman with a gun and $44,000 cash on June 21, 1998, and gave him an alibi for the robbery and kidnapping.

Answering questions posed by the prosecutor, Ms. Williams testified she was at Mr. Coleman's home on Father's Day 1998 and saw him with a gun and a lot of cash. Some of the money was in zipper bags, like bank bags, she testified. They left with several others to drive to Washington, D.C., that day, she said.

"He was saying he had went and robbed somebody," Ms. Williams testified.

On cross-examination, Ms. Williams testified Mr. Coleman was known to rob drug dealers. Ms. Williams also testified she went with Carlston Coleman and several others to North Carolina the week before Father's Day 1998 and from there they drove to Washington.

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