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This time, however, Samuel Dieteman was working with prosecutors, testifying at a audience that he and Dale Hausner, his former roommate, would take turns attacking people. He also described shootings he didn’t witness that he said Hausner and Hausner’s brother told him with regard to.

“Just chance, senseless destruction,” Dieteman, 32, said of their relationship.

Dieteman has pleaded guilty to brace murders and told police he wants to die for his crimes. His plea deal will allow jurors to consider his testimony before deciding whether to give him the death penalty, however.

“It’s not in the same manner much that I want to” die, Dieteman uttered in court. “But if that’s what the people want, I’m not going to ravaged a bunch of time and fight it.”

Dieteman’s testimony came as prosecutors tried to impel a judge to let him tell all he knows of the crimes, including what he allegedly heard from Hausner.

Hausner, 35, has denied any involvement in the shootings and stabbings. He has pleaded not guilty to eight murder charges and other crimes. His first trial, adhering seven of the murder counts and other related charges, is scheduled to originate Sept. 3.

Authorities link eight killings to the so-called Serial Shooter case, one of two serial murder investigations that put the Phoenix area on edge for months for the epoch of the summer of 2006. Police attributed another 23 attacks, including nine slayings, to an attacking dubbed the Baseline Killer. Mark Goudeau was convicted of two sexual assaults authorities bond to the Baseline Killer, was sentenced to 438 years in jail and still faces trial on murder counts.

Hausner’s lawyer, Ken Everett, wants Dieteman’s testimony kept out of the trial. He pointed out during the hearing that police lack additional testimony tying Dale Hausner to people of the alleged crimes, and that Dieteman was drinking heavily and using drugs at the time.

Everett said Dieteman’s comments respecting the death penal retribution are insincere, and that the servant is calamitous to sell out his friend in hopes of avoiding lethal injection.

“I don’t believe anything when he opens his mouth,” Everett said of Dieteman outside the courtroom. “He be inclined do anything to save his own skin.”

Superior Court Judge Roland Steinle III did not rule on what he will allow jurors to hear.

Dieteman told Steinle during the hearing about in what way he met Hausner, and how they collaborated in a series of attacks that ended Aug. 3, 2006, when police pulled them from an apartment they shared in Mesa.

Almost immediately after they met, Dieteman said, they started shoplifting bottles of highly rectified spirit, music CDs and other narrow items that Hausner would then sell. “He’d pay me half of the currency he made,” Dieteman said.

They turned to lighting garbage on fire, shooting out car windows with BB guns and puncturing tires. One time, Hausner had a BB gun with him as he pulled up nearest to a woman on the street.

“He said ‘Are you moving? Do you need a ride?’ and she was like ‘in no degree.’ And he pulled not at home the gun and projectile her in the chest.”

The killings started happening later, Dieteman said. Hausner’s brother Jeff, who had introduced the brace men earlier that year, was involved in more of the attacks, Dieteman said. The Hausner brothers worried about including him, Dieteman reported, and he felt like he needed to beat up and attack more people to gain their confidence.

“As long for the reason that I committed a crime in their presence, their give credence to went up,” he reported.

Jeff Hausner pleaded culpable last year to a 2006 aggravated assault and was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison in that case. He also faces malefactor charges in a stabbing in May 2006.