State prosecutors and defense attorneys offered wildly divergent theories of who killed Florida State University professor Dan Markel in 2014 during opening statements Thursday in the murder trial of two people accused in his death.

Georgia Cappleman, deputy assistant state attorney, told the jury of 10 women and two men assembled in a Leon Circuit courtroom that defendant Katherine Magbanua helped broker a murder-for-hire and co-defendant Sigfredo Garcia pulled the trigger, killing Markel in the driveway of his Tallahassee home with help from Garcia’s friend Luis Rivera.