Raleigh jurors see video in death-penalty trial
RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) -- Prosecutors continued their case Monday against admitted killer Nathan Holden in a Wake County courtroom.
Holden faces first-degree murder charges in the fatal shootings of 57-year-old Angelia Smith Taylor and 66-year-old Sylvester Taylor near Wendell in April 2014.
He also shot his estranged wife LaTonya Allen in the face and chest as the couple's three children were huddled in a nearby closet listening.
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Monday, jurors watched a deputy's dashcam video. That video shows the couple's children - who were in the house during the crime - crying and worrying that they were going to be killed. They were also shown crime scene photos.
Allen - who survived the attack - had a restraining order against her husband when the incident happened. The couple separated back in December 2013.
The doctor who operated on Allen's chest wound called her survival miraculous.
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In court Friday, a social worker said that when she interview Holden two days after the murders he told her that "they got what they deserved."
Social worker Larna Haddix told jurors Holden blamed Allen for the crime.
"'All this was her fault. If she just would have answered the phone,'" Haddix explained. "That he continuously tried to call her all day. He called her and called her and she wouldn't answer the phone. And if she would have answered the phone none of this would have happened."
She then inquired about why he would take it out on his in-laws.
"I asked him why he would do that, you know, they were very nice people," Haddix said, to which Holden reportedly replied, "'What's done is done. They got what they deserved.'"
