Oscar Mejia-Gomez told the court it was Gudino who orchestrated the kidnapping that ended with the deaths of his three roommates.
AKRON, Ohio — The surviving victim of a 2023 kidnapping and triple murder in Summit County testified in court Tuesday on day two of the trial against accused killer Elias Gudino.
It all happened on March 9, 2023. Oscar Mejia-Gomez, from Honduras, says he had just gotten home from work in Youngstown when two men tied him up and held him and his three roommates at gunpoint.
“We were asking them what was the reason they were taking us,” Mejia-Gomez told the court, through an interpreter. “I didn’t know him and didn’t know if the rest knew him.”
Mejia-Gomez testified that one of the men was masked, and to this day, prosecutors say suspect’s identity is unknown. The second man was not wearing a mask, and Mejia-Gomez identified him as the defendant, Elias Gudino.
Gudino’s …