This story was updated on Jan. 24, 2012.

A 22-year-old woman testified in court Tuesday that she drove two men to an abandoned farmhouse in Brookeville, where prosecutors say they shot Alex Nando Roman three times in the head Jan. 12, 2010.

Montgomery County prosecutors are trying Timothy D. Jackson, 21, of Wheaton on charges of first-degree murder for Roman’s death, conspiracy to commit murder and a handgun charge.

Defense attorney Thomas Tamm argued that his client was not with co-defendant David J. Wilson, 21, of Montgomery Village, on the night Roman, 18, was killed.

“There is insufficient evidence in this case,” Tamm told jurors during his opening statement Monday.

Roman’s body was found just before 2 a.m. Jan. 12, 2010, along the driveway to an abandoned farmhouse in the 4900 block of Brookeville Road where people would go to get high, prosecutors said. He was shot in the forehead, cheek and tip of his nose.

Jackson and Wilson were charged with the murder more than a year later, on April 14, 2011, after Wilson’s former girlfriend, Iris Milstein, went to police and said she was at the farmhouse when Roman was killed.

Assistant State’s Attorney Ray Pilkerton said Milstein was so scared for her own life after the homicide that she fled the country before deciding to come back and speak with police.

Tamm said Milstein told police the third man in the car was named “Lou” and that she was an accessory to the murder because she drove that night.

The trial is expected to last for as long as four days, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Sharon V. Burrell said.

Wilson was sentenced to 30 years in prison this month after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.

Staff Writer Jeremy Arias contributed to this report.

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