WOBURN (AP) – Opening statements in the murder trial of a New York City man accused of a deadly shooting in a Harvard University dormitory are getting underway.

Statements are scheduled to start Wednesday in Woburn Superior Court.

Jabrai Jordan Copney has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the 2009 shooting of Justin Cosby of Cambridge.

Prosecutors allege Copney shot Cosby in a robbery attempt during a deal to buy marijuana.

The men weren’t Harvard students.

Two other men have already reached plea deals in the case.

Copney’s ex-girlfriend, a former Harvard student, has pleaded not guilty to hiding the gun and helping the men flee to New York.

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