Wichita ? Prosecutors outlined for jurors Thursday the investigation that led to two brothers’ arrests just hours after four people were found shot to death in a snowy soccer field in December 2000.

Much of Thursday’s testimony focused on the arrest of Reginald Carr after a resident who had heard a broadcast about the killings noticed that a truck parked outside an apartment complex matched the description of one stolen from a victim.

Carr and his brother, Jonathan Carr, are on trial in Sedgwick County District Court for crimes stemming from a nine-day rampage that left five people dead. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Most of the charges stem from the events of Dec. 14-15, 2000, when five people were abducted from a Wichita home, forced to engage in sexual acts and to withdraw money from automated teller machines before they were taken to the field and shot.

Four of them Aaron Sander, 29; Heather Muller, 25; Brad Heyka, 27; and Jason Befort, 26 died, but Befort’s girlfriend, a teacher then 25 years old, survived and has testified in detail. Her description of Befort’s stolen Dodge Dakota pickup truck hours after the ordeal allowed officers to broadcast it quickly to other agencies and the news media.

The other charges against the Carrs involve the Dec. 11, 2000, shooting of Ann Walenta, 55, who later died, and the Dec. 7, 2000, robbery in which Andrew Schreiber was abducted and forced to withdraw cash from an ATM.

Tip led to arrests

On Thursday, Christian Taylor testified he spotted the Dodge Dakota pickup with the Kansas State University plate about 6:30 a.m. Dec. 15 as he walked through the parking lot of his apartment complex.

Just minutes earlier inside his apartment, he had flipped through the local news channels all of them reporting the quadruple killings and the description of that pickup truck.

Taylor testified he noticed a truck matching the description had been parked just two spaces away from his own car. A big television was in the truck bed, and a man was standing beside the truck, he said.

He quickly looked away and stared at his keys until he got into his car, then drove to the nearest police station, he said.

“I was worried this person may know that the police were looking for this vehicle and … might try to injure someone that had seen it,” he said.

Taylor’s actions led police to the apartment where investigators said they found some of the victims’ stolen property. His actions also led them to Reginald Carr.

Police officers who arrested Reginald Carr testified Thursday they found Befort’s gasoline credit card in his pants pocket when arrested at the apartment. At the station, officers also found on him a watch which Muller’s mother later identified as belonging to her daughter. He was also carrying $996 in cash.

Evidence on display

In testimony earlier Thursday, jurors saw much of the evidence taken from the ransacked house from which the five friends were abducted.

Among the items brought to the courtroom was the blood-stained golf club investigators believe was used to kill a small muzzled dog belonging to the woman who survived.

Barbara Siwek, crime scene investigator for the Wichita Police Department, testified Thursday about evidence she collected at the home part of the attack took place.

She spent five days in the house collecting potential evidence including 378 photos of the crime scene, 32 samples of body fluids and 152 latent fingerprints, among other items.

Among the dozens of photos jurors viewed was a picture of a dead dog as well as a puddle of blood on a bed and the dog’s broken muzzle.