Pring-Wilson attorney E. Peter Parker attempted to establish that Colono and Abreu were not cooperating with the police who showed up at the 7-Eleven.
At the time, both Abreu and Rodriguez did not hold valid driver’s licenses, and Rodriguez testified Tuesday that he feared “getting in trouble” with the police.
Parker asked Sitler if Rodriguez told Abreu, “We gotta go. We gotta go.” Sitler answered that he did.
“They were ignoring the police officers?” Parker questioned Sitler. “They weren’t giving answers to the police?”
“No,” Sitler answered.
Another defense witness, Officer Robert Disario of the Brookline Police Department, said that “initially [Rodriguez] was very uncooperative. He was vague.”
Mark Brinkman, the EMS officer who responded to the scene at the 7-Eleven, testified yesterday that he arrived at the scene at 2 a.m., about an hour after the stabbing. He said that Colono, a lifetime Cambridge resident and father to a three-year-old daughter, was conscious but “not oriented” and not able to answer any questions.
—Robin M. Peguero contributed to the reporting of this article. —Staff writer May Habib can be reached at habib@fas.harvard.edu.