Teen's sister recounts decapitation death
By Heather Nolan, Beaumont Enterprise
Updated 02:20 p.m., Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Cindy Le, the 15-year-old sister of Mandy Le, testified this afternoon about the night her sister was killed.
According to Le, she knew Jonathan Benitez's younger brother from school. She told jurors that she and the younger brother had been texting around 11 p.m. on May 14 and he asked her to come "chill" with him and Jonathan.
Cindy and Mandy met up with the brothers and started riding around town together in a Cadillac Escalade. Cindy told jurors that Jonathan and his younger brother were drinking beer in the front seats. She and Mandy were seated in the back seats and neither were wearing seatbelts.
According to Cindy, Jonathan started driving erratically and his younger brother asked him to stop.
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