TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Three men have pleaded not guilty to charges they killed an Edgewood man during a home-invasion robbery.
Clabon T. Berniard, of SeaTac, and Kiyoshi Higashi and Joshua Reese, of Tacoma, entered the pleas to murder, robbery, assault and burglary charges Monday in Pierce County Superior Court. They are each held on $2 million bail.
Prosecutors say the three joined a woman named Amanda Knight in fatally shooting James Sanders, tying up his wife and beating his 14-year-old son during at the family’s home April 28.
Knight pleaded not guilty last week.
Police say the four went to the home posing as customers who wanted to buy a diamond ring that Sanders posted for sale on the website Craigslist.
