A Suffolk Superior Court jury will begin deliberations tomorrow after nine days of testimony suggesting that a Jamaica Plain man gunned down his associate’s ex-girlfriend as she lit a candle to her brother, who had been shot to death in the very same spot four years earlier.

“This is the case of a 20-year-old woman named Analicia Perry who was killed in a drive-by shooting,” Assistant District Attorney Cory Flashner said this afternoon during closing arguments in the murder trial of 20-year-old LARON LEWIS RICHARDSON (D.O.B. 6/24/88).

“The passenger in that car and the shooter in that car points to one person: Laron Richardson,” Flashner said.

Flashner, a member of the district attorney’s Homicide Unit, recounted witness testimony regarding the defendant’s own words during a three-way telephone conversation the day after the murder, saying they were evidence of his culpability.

“Think about what he says,” Flashner said. “‘I’ll do something but not today.’ ‘I can’t do 30 years.’ ‘Maybe I’ll just kill myself.’ Is it an admission? Of course it is,” he said.

Richardson allegedly spoke those words to the slain woman’s ex-boyfriend, STEVEN SAYLES (D.O.B. 4/5/87), and that man’s uncle during a phone call on July 23, 2006. Unbeknownst to Richardson, members of the victim’s family were listening in on the call as part of a three-party phone conversation.

On July 22, 2006, Perry visited a memorial on a Mission Hill street corner on the four-year anniversary of her brother’s homicide. While at the site with her young child and a friend, Sayles allegedly drove by with at least one passenger in his silver-grey Toyota; a short time later, Sayles drove by again and someone shouted from the vehicle.

“Pick up your phone, bitch,” the voice allegedly said.

Perry then walked with her friend to a nearby MBTA station and dropped her child off with her sister. She then returned to the memorial and lit a candle in her brother’s memory. Out of respect for her privacy, the friend remained a short distance away in a nearby parking lot.

At this time, prosecutors allege, Sayles’ vehicle drove by a third time and Perry threw the candle at the car.

Immediately afterwards, a single shot was fired from the Toyota’s passenger seat. A .380-caliber bullet traveled from the vehicle into the right side of Perry’s face, deflected off her jaw, and entered her brain. She fell to the ground and died.

A medical examiner removed the round from Perry’s head during her autopsy. Boston Police recovered the shell casing from that round on a curb a short distance away. Flashner described how the location of the shell casing was consistent its being ejected from a semiautomatic handgun fired from the passenger’s side – and not the driver’s side – of the vehicle.

“It is not consistent with the driver, Steven Sayles, firing that gun,” Flashner said.

In the hours following Perry’s homicide, her friends and family began to speak of what had happened. Among them, Flashner said, was Sayles’ godmother, who facilitated a three-way phone call among Sayles and his uncle, Richardson, and members of Perry’s family who listened in.

In the course of that conversation, Sayles allegedly confronted Richardson and told him, “They think I killed my girl.”

Flashner urged jurors to remember that members of Perry’s family had no reason to tell anything but the truth regarding Richardson’s alleged statements during the phone call.

“They have no ax to grind,” he said. “They provide the context and they’re consistent on all of the important points. This leads to one and only one interpretation: What they heard from Laron Richardson was a confession. There is no way to interpret that as anything but a confession.”

Members of Perry’s family called Boston Police, explaining what had happened and what they had heard. Detectives who had been investigating the case almost around the clock since Perry was killed soon obtained warrants for Sayles and Richardson. Sayles ultimately surrendered himself; Richardson fled the area and was arrested on Aug. 29, 2006, after a standoff in Portland, Maine.

“The defendant’s words, the defendant’s actions, lead to one conclusion: The defendant is guilty,” Flashner said. “When he pulled his hoodie up tight and fired a shot, that was first-degree murder.”

Richardson is represented by attorney Jonathan Shapiro. Sayles was indicted as an accessory after the fact to Perry’s homicide and will be tried at a later date. Judge Thomas E. Connolly is presiding in courtroom 806 of Suffolk Superior Court.