A 28-year-old woman who admitted shooting the 65-year-old man with whom she had been living testified in state court Thursday that stands of hair found in both of the dead man’s hands were hers even though there was no physical struggle between them.

“He didn’t even see me coming,” Anjelita Rasa testified about shooting William Aki on June 23, 2015, in Aki’s Whitmore Village home.

Rasa was charged with murder, firearm possession crimes and credit card theft in connection with Aki’s shooting death but pleaded guilty before trial to robbery in a plea deal with the prosecutor. Instead of life in prison for murder, Rasa is facing 20 years behind bars with possible release on parole after less than seven.

She is testifying as a prosecution witness against Shane Rodrigues and his cousin Shaun Branco-Taguchi, who are on trial, respectively, for allegedly assisting and participating in Aki’s slaying. They are also on trial for allegedly setting Aki’s car on fire near Makua Cave after the killing.

Rasa said the main reason she was testifying was to “give me peace of mind because I need to take responsibility and tell the truth.”

She admitted that she lied when she placed all the blame on Branco-Taguchi in three separate statements to police following her arrest in 2015.

Rasa insists that Aki was alive after she shot him but was dead after Branco- Taguchi took a second shot.

A Honolulu medical examiner testified that Aki died from gunshot wounds to the chest and back of the head.

Sporting a short cropped haircut instead of the shoulder-length hairdo she had when she was arrested two years ago, Rasa had no explanation for how strands of her hair wound up in the clutches of a dead man. She testified that she stood over Aki and lifted up his right arm to confirm that he was dead, then rummaged through his pockets for his car keys.

Aki had kicked out Rasa two weeks before his death. But Rasa testified that wasn’t the reason she wanted to kill Aki. She said Aki had kicked her out before, but she had always convinced him to let her stay.

She had testified that she wanted to kill Aki because of two prior incidents. One was when she woke up to him sexually assaulting her after she had passed out on drugs. The other was when she found him in a closet in women’s clothes, makeup and wig while playing with her son and his granddaughter.

Rasa said she had let those two incidents pass because she wanted to continue staying in Aki’s home, driving his car and using his money to buy drugs. She said Aki had pledged his love for her but that she didn’t consider him her boyfriend and that she was free to come and go as she pleased.