The woman police say was the victim of a home invasion in Syracuse in August, 2008, pointed at Eric Moore Tuesday and told a jury he is the man she woke up to find on top of her. Lissette Tejeda testified that when she recognized him she screamed at Moore, "Eric, why are you doing this to me?" "My name is not Eric, bitch," she said he replied.
Tejeda told the jurors Moore taped her hands and mouth. Moore and two other people, all wearing bandannas over their faces, began to look for a shoebox. Tejeda said she recognized Moore when he turned his face and she saw a part not covered by the bandanna.
Tejeda says the men took $500. After they got the money from her walk-in closet, Moore told Tejeda that if she called the police, they would kill her. Although she contacted the police that night, she admitted she told police she didn’t know who the men were. After Assistant District Attorney Michael Kasmarek asked her if she felt safe in her home, Tejeda simply replied, “no.”
Moore shook his head during Tejeda's testimony and in a break before she took the stand, he'd insisted to reporters that he is innocent. "I'll tell you whatever you want to know after this is over, whether I'm in the Justice Center or on the street," he said.
Still, Tejeda told the jury in her testimony that she was “absolutely sure” that Eric Moore was responsible. Tejeda said she is still “scared for her life.”
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