Rebecca LopezVerified account @rlopezwfaa Oct 23
Crystal Cortes is on the stand. She allegedly
drove the get away car on the night Dr. Kendra Hatcher was murdered.
Maria GuerreroVerified account @Maria_NBC5 Oct 23
Big witness now on the stand: Crystal Cortes < alleged getaway driver; faces capital murder charge; now testifying in
#KristopherLoveTrial. He's accused triggerman in murder for hire plot.
Maria GuerreroVerified account @Maria_NBC5 Oct 23
On the stand: alleged getaway driver Crystal Cortes, fmr friend of Brenda Delgado. Co-defendant in Kendra Hatcher’s murder. Pleaded guilty in murder w/condition of testifying in
#KristopherLoveTrial; will be Sentenced to 35years.
Rebecca LopezVerified account @rlopezwfaa Oct 23
Crystal Cortes plead guilty last week to murder in exchange for her testimony against Brenda Delgado and Kristopher Love. She had been charged with capital murder as a co-conspirator which carries the death penalty.
Rebecca LopezVerified account @rlopezwfaa Oct 23
Cortes says she helped Delgado and Love plan the murder of Dr Hatcher. She says she helped get the murder weapon and stalked Dr. Hatcher.
Rebecca LopezVerified account @rlopezwfaa Oct 23
Cortes says she and Love knew Dr. Hatcher and her boyfriend, RIcardo Paniagua were together at her apartment because Brenda Delgado was tracking his phone on the day of the murder.
Rebecca LopezVerified account @rlopezwfaa Oct 23
Cortes says she planned the murder of Kendra Hatcher and drove the get away car for 5 hundred dollars.
Law & Crime NetworkVerified account @LawCrimeNetwork Oct 23
#KristopherLoveTrial Cortes says she was getting paid $500 to be the driver. She was to be paid by Brenda Degaldo
Robbie OwensVerified account @cbs11Robbie Oct 23
#Now #KristopherLoveTrial Crystal Cortes telling jury how she &
#BrendaDelgado followed
#KendraHatcher’s movements every day before she was murdered in her Uptown
#Dallas garage. She has admitted guilt in plea deal. Admits to being an “integral part” of plan.
@CBSDFW
Robbie OwensVerified account @cbs11Robbie Oct 23
#Now #KristopherLoveTrial Woman who drove getaway car, Crystal Cortes, speaking without emotion about dropping her son off at school before returning to stalking a stranger that she was planning to murder. Her fee? $500.She’s accepted a 35 year prison sentence for murder
@CBSDFW
Robbie OwensVerified account @cbs11Robbie Oct 23
#Now #KristopherLoveTrial: Get away driver Crystal Cortes took a selfie w/ $500 she was paid to help murder
#KendraHatcher. Prosecutors say plot was hatched by
#BrendaDelgado, the obsessive ex of Hatcher’s new boyfriend. And yes, she’s holding the $ in a heart.
@CBSDFW
Tasha TsiaperasVerified account @ttsiaperas Oct 23
Crystal Cortes says she played a greater role in planning Kendra Hatcher’s than she originally told police, including suggesting following Hatcher for two weeks before the fatal shooting.
Tasha TsiaperasVerified account @ttsiaperas Oct 23
Cortes says she was supposed to get $500 for driving and Kristopher Love would get “drugs and money.” Brenda Delgado said “she had connections to certain people.” Delgado is the alleged mastermind of Hatcher’s death.
Tasha TsiaperasVerified account @ttsiaperas Oct 23
On Sept. 2, 2015, when Hatcher was killer, Cortes took a break from following Hatcher to pick up her son from school and take him to Sonic.
Tasha TsiaperasVerified account @ttsiaperas Oct 23
Crystal Cortes said the group followed Kendra Hatcher regularly and had been into her parking garage at least 12 times before the fatal shooting.
Tasha TsiaperasVerified account @ttsiaperas Oct 23
“It was planned to be a murder and to look like a robbery gone bad,” Cortes said of killing Kendra Hatcher.
Tasha TsiaperasVerified account @ttsiaperas Oct 23
Cortes said she told the alleged gunman, Kristopher Love, that Kendra Hatcher had pulled into the parking garage. “I hear Kendra scream, ‘Help, help, help me,’” Cortes said. “When I heard the shots fired I knew he had killed Kendra Hatcher.”
Tasha TsiaperasVerified account @ttsiaperas Oct 23
Cortes said she, Love and Brenda Delgado started to worry the day after Kendra Hatcher was killed. They were surprised by how much attention the slaying got. “We didn’t think it would be so big,” she said.
Tasha TsiaperasVerified account @ttsiaperas Oct 23
Kristopher Love’s atty questioning Crystal Cortes now. He says Cortes changed her story several times. She admitted more of her involvement in Sept. “You just became afraid you were possibly going to be facing the maximum penalty for this crime?” the atty asked “Yes sir.”
Tasha TsiaperasVerified account @ttsiaperas Oct 23
What Cortes says that’s new: -she tried to buy a silencer -the group followed Kendra Hatcher for two weeks -Kristopher Love used gloves to load/use the gun to kill Hatcher -Cortes and Brenda Delgado burned some of Hatcher’s belongings
Tasha TsiaperasVerified account @ttsiaperas Oct 23
Crystal Cortes originally told police the plan was to rob Kendra Hatcher to take her ID so she couldn’t board her flight the next day. She now says it was always supposed to be a murder
Tasha TsiaperasVerified account @ttsiaperas Oct 23
Cortes says Brenda Delgado claimed to be in a cartel and that’s how she had money to pay Cortes and Kristopher Love to kill Kendra Hatcher.
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Tasha TsiaperasVerified account @ttsiaperas Oct 23
Another woman is on the witness stand in Kristopher Love’s capital murder trial. She says she saw Crystal Cortes, Brenda Delgado and Love having conversations. She says Delgado only spoke in Spanish and Cortes translated to Love.
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Cathy Russon @cathyrusson Oct 23
#KristopherLoveTrial - Crystal Cortes, getaway driver, is now off the stand. Court breaks for
lunch. Our live stream will continue after lunch.
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