Dad, Daughter On Trial For Kidnapping Coral Springs Woman
FT. LAUDERDALE (CBS4) – Trial is underway for a Sunrise father and his daughter accused in the kidnapping and the attempted murder of a Tamarac woman.
On the stand Monday, police investigators answered questions about what evidence led them to 67-year Neville Baker and his 39-year old daughter Rossaine.
According to court records, in October 2009 Neville Baker and another man, who remains at large, forced 22-year old Nicola Brown into a car at gunpoint in Coral Springs. They drove around for a while and then demanded that Brown get the trunk when they stopped in warehouse area in Tamarac. She refused, struggled and finally escaped, but not before being shot twice.
Brown was airlifted to Broward General Medical Center and survived.
Investigators say Rossaine Baker and Brown were rivals for the same man, according to the Sun-Sentinel. At the time of the shooting, Rossaine Baker was out on bond for allegedly attacking Brown the year before.
Prosecutors told CBS4 they hope their 'smoking gun', which will convince the jury to convict the pair, is a surveillance tape of the Bakers trying to clean the car used to kidnap Brown.
Charges against Neville and Rossaine Baker include attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping.
Both father and daughter have pleaded not guilty to the charges.
