A Franklin County jury will resume deliberating Monday to decide if Trevor Scott Sands murdered two Columbus men in separate 2017 robbery attempts.
Cox also testified that in other conversations, she heard Sands allude to Mendy’s death. Cox said Sands had pretended online to want to buy something from Mendy when he actually intended to rob him. Mendy was fatally shot while he was working on a motorcycle in a garage on Lowridge Drive.
Frederick Benton Jr., Sands’ attorney, argued during his closing argument that Cox was not a credible witness since she got a plea deal and changed her story several times during interviews with authorities. Franklin County prosecutors said during the trial that Cox initially lied to authorities because she was trying to protect herself and her friends, but that she came around. Prosecutors said other witnesses and evidence corroborate Cox’s testimony.
During the trial, a forensic expert in ballistics said the bullets at the two homicide scenes were fired from the .45-caliber pistol Sands had when he was arrested by Gahanna police on May 27, 2019 for robbing a Family Dollar store on Agler Road, a crime in which Cox also was the getaway driver.
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