TAMPA, Fla. - After about a week of testimony, the state and the defense made their closing statements in the trial of five men who are accused of killing a four-year-old girl in 2021.

Zvante Sampson, Jaylin Bedward, James Denson, Quandarious Hammond and Andrew Thompson are charged with murder. On Monday, the prosecution and defense attorneys for each defendant made their closing statements to a jury in Hillsborough County.

The backstory:

The state said Suni Bell and her family were coming back from a celebration of life for a family member who had died, and they were headed to a get-together following the event that night in August 2021. Prosecutors said Suni's uncle, Willy Brown, was driving the car and her mother, Mary Harrison, was in the passenger's seat.

They couldn't find th

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