pat collins is live in upper marlboro. pat? >> reporter: when wynetta wright's family wants the accused kill tore know exactly how they feel about him and today in court they didn't hold back. drama in the courtroom, a jouj allows the family of a murder victim to speak out. family to the suspect, you're a monster. you're trash. family to the judge, make sure nothing happens to him in jail so we can get our justice. the murder victim, 20-year-old wynetta wright. the murder suspect 39-year-old richmond phillips, a d.c. vice cop. the murder scene, the oxen run park behind the hillcrest heights community center. now that community center has security cameras all around the outside. according to court documents those cameras recorded the murder suspect cop and the murder victim around a picnic table in the park from 11:00 at night until 6:00 a.m. the next morning. seven hours around that picnic table until -- until that murder. miss wright found dead in the nearby woods. she'd been shot to death. the two were involved in a paternity

pat collins spoke to the victim's family today. they say they want justice. pat is at the d.c. superior court with more on this. >> reporter: a family out in force, watching a trial every step of the way, searching for justice for kiela ryan. >> reporter: the trial began in his daughter's hit and run death. he heard the details. he was there when they showed the pictures. >> i don't want to see those pictures. i'm just glad that i think she didn't know what hit her. so that's the only good news. the bad news is that she's gone from our life, and it's something that you just don't know until you're there and it's horrible because she was just our baby. >> reporter: the whole ryan family here. here in memory of kiela ryan. killed on her birthday. >> she was 24. she just started her life. >> reporter: it happened last october on a connecticut avenue service road just south of dupont circle. kiela was getting out of the back passenger seat of a car when she was hit by a lexus suv and knocked 20 feet in the air. >> just to not have her here, i mean, a part of me is dead honestly. >>

pat collins joins us from upper marlboro with the latest on this case. pat? >> reporter: doreen, wynetta wright's family in court speaking about her accused killer, speaking out loud, holding nothing back, but we're going to begin this report with some thoughts from the state's attorney. >> it's an especially heinous case and we will prosecute it aggressively. >> reporter: drama in the courtroom. a judge allows the family of a murder victim to speak out. family to the suspect, you're a monster. you're trash. family to the judge, make sure nothing happens to him in jail so we can get our justice. the murder victim, 20-year-old wynetta wright. the murder suspect, 39-year-old richmond phillips, a d.c. vice cop. the murder scene, the oxen run park behind the hillcrest heights community center. now that community center has security cameras all around the outside. according to court documents those cameras recorded the murder suspect cop and the murder victim around a picnic table in the park from 11:00 at night until 6:00 a.m. the next morning. seven hours around

pat collins joins us live outside the courthouse with today's dramatic developments. pat? >> reporter: jim, they saw the pictures. they heard the graphic details of death. imagine what it was like in th keila ryan. >> it was her birthday. she was 24. she just started her life. >> reporter: her mother, her father, her sister, brother and best friend all here at superior court seeking justice for kila ryan. she was killed on her 24th birthday by a hit and run driver. >> she was my best friend. she started out my little sister and she was my best friend. there's no words to describe that she's not with us. and this whole scenario is like brought everything right back to exactly how it felt. >> reporter: it happened last october on a service road just south of dupont circle. she was getting out of the back passenger seat of a car when she was hit by a lexus suv and knocked 20 feet into the air. >> people come and go in your life all the time, but she was something that was always constant. and just to not have her here, i mean, a part of me is dead honestly. >> reporter: jarid