RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- Jurors were presented with cell phone records today that further implicated two men being tried for murder in the slaying of a prostitute in Ontario.
The records, which were detailed by a detective in West Valley Superior Court, show that Matthew James McClane and Larry Darnell Shyne were in the area of the Hotel Indigo during the shooting.
Kimberly Michelle Sum, 41, died after being shot Dec. 19, 2008 during a botched robbery attempt at the hotel, according to prosecutors.
The bullet allegedly fired by McClane passed through Sum's face and entered her chest, Ontario police Detective Jeffrey Wentz testified.
Wentz said that at the time of Sum's killing, calls were placed and received on cell phones carried by McClane, 29, and Shyne, 31.
Records obtained from each man's phone service provider show that the calls were routed through cellular towers near the Hotel Indigo, Wentz said.
The information about the men's cell phone use was the latest piece of evidence in more than two weeks of testimony that links the Pomona men to Sum's killing.
Prosecutors contend that Shyne was at one time Sum pimp, and he set up the woman's robbery in part to scare her into returning to him for protection.
Shyne allegedly enlisted his cousin, Donald Ray Walker, and his cousin's gang associate, McClane, to rob Sum at the Hotel Indigo, where she had lived for about six months.
Walker, who testified during the trial in exchange for a lenient sentence, said on the witness stand that McClane took out a pistol during the robbery attempt and shot Sum.
Walker testified that he and McClane didn't find money or jewelry in Sum's room, and left without taking anything.
Other witnesses today included two Pomona police officers who contacted McClane before the shooting and filled out field interview cards, which are used by police to track gang members.
In both contacts McClane admitted he was a member of the Los Angeles-based 87th Street Gangster Crips, according to the officers.
The officers' testimony supports allegations by prosecutors that Sum's killing was carried out to benefit a gang, which if proven could lengthen the defendants' prison sentences by a term of 25 years to life.
Wentz is set to retake the witness stand this morning. Judge Stephan Saleson said today that testimony will likely conclude before the end of the week.