ATLANTA -- In the racial murder-for-hire trial, a witness to the murder of Sparkle Rai testified Thursday the killer said afterwards that he should have thrown her baby off the balcony too. He did not and in the trial the actual murder suspect isn’t the defendant. The man who allegedly hired him for the job is.

Prosecutors believe Chiman Rai, Sparkle Rai's father-in-law, hired Cleveland Clark to kill her because she wasn't Indian.

When Sparkle Rai was murdered eight years ago there were two witnesses -- one 16 and one 15 years old.

The 15-year-old was the alleged killer’s cousin, who broke the case open four years ago. She was under arrest and told police what happened.

The witness said she was 15 years old when her cousin, Cleveland Clark, brought her and her best friend to an apartment in Union City.

“Clee instructed us to knock on the door and ask if a lady stayed there,” the unidentified witness testified.

After that, she said they returned with Clark hiding behind them.

“She opened the door. She was turning around to go back and Clee came up behind her and told her to get on the ground. He asked her where the dope was at. He was choking her with a vacuum cord,” said the witness.

Moments later, Sparkle Rai seemed to come back to life, the witness said, so Clark grabbed a kitchen butcher knife.

Sparkle Rai’s father and step-mother were in court as the witness demonstrated. “He was stabbing her a lot of times in her chest and neck area,” said the witness.

The witness said she and her friend eavesdropped later as Clark talked on the phone.

“He told the other male on the other line that he had taken care of that and he told Clee to come on home,” said the witness.