The trial for Eric Holder, the man accused of killing
Nipsey Hussle, is underway, and the woman who drove Holder to and from the crime scene
has given her testimony. She claims she initially had no idea that Holder had shot someone.
On Monday (June 20), Holder's trial in the murder of
Nipsey Hussle resumed after beginning last week. The day included testimony from Bryannita Nicholson, 35, a friend of Holder who was driving him around the day
Holder allegedly shot and killed the beloved Los Angeles rapper on March 31, 2019. Nicholson claimed she and Holder pulled into the South L.A. shopping center where Nipsey Hussle's The Marathon clothing store is located to get food at the nearby Master Burger when they saw the rapper standing in the parking lot.
"I said, 'Ooh, there goes Nipsey. He fine," Nicholson testified, according to local Los Angeles news outlet
Fox26. "I want to take a picture with him.'"
She went on to say Holder got out of the car and approached
Nipsey Hussle while she was still looking for a parking spot. When she joined Holder and Nipsey, the two men were already engaged in conversation, Nicholson testified.
"I just thought he was trying to beat me to go see him before I saw him," Nicholson said. "Eric was asking Nipsey, 'Did you tell somebody I snitched?'"
According to Nicholson's account, she returned to the car to post her photo to social media while Holder went into the burger joint to get food. After emerging with his meal, Holder reportedly told Nicholson to pull her car around the back of the shopping center, where he allegedly pulled out a handgun.
"I was like, 'What are you doing? You put that away. You ain't going to shoot nothing outside my car,'" Nicholson testified. "He did put it away."