Carmela Dela Rosa

Less than 48 hours after opening statements, prosecutors have rested in the murder trial of Carmela Dela Rosa, who stands accused of dropping her two-year-old granddaughter to her death from a Tysons Corner elevated walkway.

The jury certainly heard an emotional batch of testimony over the past day-and-a-half. Mary Kathlyn Ogdoc, Dela Rosa’s daughter, told the court how Dela Rosa briskly picked up the girl, then walked to the railing and dropped her. Reports from the courtroom indicate that several members of the jury were seen crying during Ogdoc’s testimony. During the prosecution’s case, the jury also listened to a taped confession from Dela Rosa — in which she admitted to doing “a terrible thing” and that she would “feel good” that the girl’s father “doesn’t have her anymore” — as well as the actual surveillance footage of the incident.

Dela Rosa’s defense will now try and prove to the jury that their client’s history of mental illness led her to not understand what she was doing at the time of the incident.