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First Posted: 5/8/2013 WILKES-BARRE &#8212; Angelina DeAbreu texted a friend on her cellphone shortly after Tyler Winstead was shot and killed on April 5, 2012.
DeAbreu needed a favor.
Tanya Wildes, of Mountain Top, testified on Wednesday DeAbreu asked her to contact other people about hiding a gun placed in the backyard of DeAbreu&#8217;s neighbor, Patrick Curry, on Hill Street in Wilkes-Barre.
Wildes&#8217; testimony came in the second day of DeAbreu&#8217;s trial on charges she covered up the fatal shooting of 14-year-old Tyler Winstead. Testimony will continue this morning, Judge David Lupas said. DeAbreu, 31, now living with her parents in Stroudsburg after moving from her Hill Street, Wilkes-Barre, home where the shooting occurred, faces six charges.
Wildes said she asked her friend of five years whether DeAbreu&#8217;s son, Elijah Yusiff, 14, was involved in the shooting.
&#8220;Hell no!!&#8221; DeAbreu allegedly texted back.
Another witness, Stephanie Curry, testified Wednesday she was contacted by Wildes, a woman she did not know, sometime after the shooting. Wildes wanted to get in touch with Patrick Curry, her father, to discuss disposing of a gun.
Patrick Curry testified he believed the teenager was killed in a drive-by shooting until his daughter read him text messages received from Wildes.
Patrick Curry went into his backyard and saw a revolver wrapped up in a striped towel on a scrap metal pike he kept.
&#8220;I pushed it with my foot. I didn&#8217;t touch it or move it,&#8221; Curry said, noting the gun wasn&#8217;t there the following morning.
When asked why he didn&#8217;t immediately call police and waited 12 hours to report the gun being placed in his backyard, Curry said he was scared.
&#8220;I was never involved in anything like this before,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I thought I&#8217;d get in trouble.&#8221;
Wilkes-Barre Detective David Sobocinski testified he assisted in three searches at DeAbreu&#8217;s home in the days after the fatal shooting.
Police became suspicious of Yusiff&#8217;s story about Winstead being killed in a drive-by shooting after viewing the city&#8217;s video surveillance footage of the area after the shooting. Investigators could not locate a red Ford Taurus, a vehicle Yusiff said the alleged shooter drove away in.
Police also became suspicious when Yusiff described the alleged shooter as a thin, black man and described a different man in a police sketch.
Sobocinski said police located blood stains on carpets that were bleached, and blood on a wall at the bottom of a stairwell.
Police also recovered a .22-caliber bullet at the bottom of the steps and a half-used gallon of bleach.
Blood on the wall was tested and determined to be Winstead&#8217;s, Sobocinski testified. Two other stains were undetermined because bleach had been used.
In one of the searches, a safe the gun had been kept in was found at Yusiff&#8217;s uncle&#8217;s home in New Jersey, Sobocinski said.

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