Lake Superior Court jurors hearing evidence in a murder trial learned Thursday of the defendant's arrest at a Gary motel four days after the killing.

Gary police SWAT officers rammed open the door to a second-floor room at the Mosley Motel on Melton Road and arrested Anthony Terrall Williams, 31, according to court testimony. Williams is on trial for murder in the shooting of Damian Reedus, 34, and attempted murder in the wounding of Reedus' friend, Aja Jester.

Williams has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, attempted murder, carjacking, aggravated battery, two counts of battery and criminal recklessness resulting in serious bodily injury. His first trial ended in mistrial in April when jurors deadlocked.

Lake County police crime scene investigator Michael Equihua on Thursday said he took photographs of the room where Williams was staying after investigators obtained a search warrant. Police found Williams' ID card on a nightstand in the room.

The majority of Thursday's testimony related to documenting and collecting evidence in the 1999 white van that Jester was driving early on Dec. 2, 2013.

Jester has said Williams fired two shots, killing Reedus, then shot her in the neck, pulled her out of the van and put a gun to her face. “You have to die because you saw my face,” Jester recalled Williams telling her seconds before the gun jammed and she ran away. Williams drove away in her van, Jester said.

Lake County police Capt. Milan Trisic said two shell casings were found in the van, which was found at 9:35 a.m. Dec. 2, 2013, in the 1900 block of Pennsylvania Street with Reedus' lifeless body inside. Jester said the shooting occurred at 21st and Vermont Street in Gary as she was driving Reedus and Williams home at 3 a.m. that day.

One casing was found between the driver and passenger seats and a second casing was behind the second row of seats near a child's book bag.

Testimony is expected to resume Friday before Lake Superior Judge Salvador Vasquez and the seven-man, five-woman jury.

Ruth Ann Krause is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.