Samantha Scott felt uneasy Friday in court for a Placer County murder trial testifying against a friend she trusted, Daniel Serafini, a former Major League Baseball player, accused of shooting his wife’s parents in their Lake Tahoe-area home .

Assistant Chief Deputy District Attorney Richard Miller asked Scott why she cried during a courtroom break Friday morning and how she was feeling sitting on the witness stand several feet away from Serafini, a married man she had an affair with now accused of murder.

“Stressed... there’s a lot of things that I feel and think,” Scott said about testifying for the prosecution against Serafini. “Sad. I don’t know... I still care about him.”

At the Auburn Historic Courthouse, Scott testified about how she saw Serafini test-fire a makeshift silencer

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