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Eric Rivera, the man accused of shooting and killing Washington football team safety Sean Taylor, took to the stand during his murder trial today and claimed that he didn’t actually shoot and kill him.

This, of course, comes after he’d already confessed to the murder of Taylor, but is now saying that “Miami-Dade police detectives coerced him into falsely confessing to Taylor’s murder.” the Miami Herald reports. According to Rivera’s testimony, he was not even in the room when Taylor was shot, but was waiting in the car. He also claimed to not even know where he and his five friends—all teens at the time of the murder—were headed.

The Herald reports:

Rivera claimed he only found out about the destination as the group was driving across Alligator Alley in November 2007. Once parked at Taylor’s home, Rivera told jurors that he never expected to get any money — and that he stayed inside the SUV the entire time.

It was only when three cohorts rushed back from the home and climbed inside the SUV in a panic did he know that anyone had been shot, he said. Rivera claimed that the shooter was Venjah Hunte, the only one of the five defendants to have pleaded guilty so far.

The original police reports said the Rivera and his friends attended a party at Taylor’s residence thrown by his siblings a month before the murder, and then concocted a plan to sneak back to the house and rob it when they didn’t think Taylor would be home.

Rivera testified that while he was initially being questioned, detectives “repeatedly ignored his request for a phone to call his parents,” and that they “pressured” him into a confession.