SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) -- Testimony from witnesses continued on Monday for one of four men charged with murdering a Santa Cruz tech CEO, Tushar Atre.

Two men, Stephen Nicholas "Nic" Lindsay and Kurtis Charters, were convicted in murder trials held earlier this year and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Charters' younger brother, Kaleb Charters, was back in the courtroom Monday as prosecutors called detectives to the stand.

Atre was sleeping on October 1, 2019 around 3 a.m. when a group of men broke into his house at Pleasure Point, grabbed him out of bed, and stole thousands of dollars in cash from a safe. The group stabbed and kidnapped Atre before he was fatally shot and left for dead in the Santa Cruz mountains, investigators said.

Immediately after the grisly murder, At

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