KANSAS CITY, KAN. ? Two men will be tried on capital murder charges in one of this city’s worst killing sprees ever.

After vivid and sometimes gruesome testimony in their preliminary hearing, a judge ruled Monday that prosecutors had sufficient evidence to bind over Darryl Lamont Stallings, 32, and Errik A. Harris, 26, for trial.

Wyandotte County District Judge Thomas L. Boeding made the ruling.

The county district attorney’s office set Stallings’ trial for Jan. 13 and Harris’ for Feb. 13. Both men remain jailed.

Four women and a man died June 10 in a series of killings that police said were related to drug-dealing, personal disputes and revenge.

Hours of partying and drinking in Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., preceded the slayings, Patrice Hickmon, 19, who is acquainted with both defendants, testified Monday.

In the early hours of June 10, Hickmon said, she went to a rented motel room in Johnson County with Stallings, Harris and her friend Tameika Jackson. The men had two handguns, a rifle-like weapon and a bag of bullets with them, she said.

Stallings and Harris put bullets into the clips of two handguns, then left the motel.

Hickmon, who has been charged with aiding a felon in connection with the case, said Stallings returned later.

She said he drove the two women to a secluded area in Kansas City, Kan., got out of the car with Jackson and walked a short distance with her.

“He just shot her with the handgun,” Hickmon testified. “I started screaming. I didn’t know what to do.”

Besides Jackson, 24, the dead included Melvin Montague, 34, Destiny Wiles, 23, and Samantha Sigler, 24, who were shot in one home, and Trina Jennings, 26, who was killed in her house.

A witness said Jennings, who was pregnant, tried unsuccessfully to hide in her bedroom closet before Stallings found and shot her. The witness, who was in the house, said Stallings then gave him a ride home.