With 12 jurors and two alternates—seven men and seven women—selected, the trial of George Huguely V, of Chevy Chase, MD, for the killing of Yeardley Love, of Cockeysville, MD, continued in Charlottesville, VA, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, with eight witnesses called.

Witnesses included Yeardley Love’s mother, older sister and a cousin—the first witnesses to be called by the prosecutors, reported The Washington Post.

Prosecutors focused on the stormy, on-again-off-again relationship (described in more detail by USA Today) between Huguely and Love, who were both fourth-year students and lacrosse players at the University of Virginia when Huguely allegedly killed Love in May 2010.

The Virginia state medical examiner has ruled that Love, who was 22, died of blunt-force trauma to the head, but Huguely’s attorneys intend to "suggest that Love could have died from an irregular heartbeat related to Adderall, a drug used to treat attention problems for which Love had a prescription," The Post reported.

But, prosecutors held that Huguely killed Love by shaking her until her head banged against a wall, and then left her, bleeding, with her computer in his hands, The Post reported.

Huguely took the computer, his defense attorneys said, " 'to get her to reach out' to him in the morning," The Post reported.

The defense attorney said that "proof [that] Huguely did not intend to kill Love was his reaction of surprise when police officers told him during interrogation that she was dead: 'George did not and could not believe any such thing happened,' " USA Today reported.

" 'Involuntary manslaughter ... [should be the only consideration] at this time. Please take careful deliberation. … He’s not complicated. He’s not complex. He’s a lacrosse player,' " the attorneys said, ABC News reported.

But, prosecutors pointed to a threatening email that Huguely sent to Love just days before her death as evidence that Huguely may have had other ideas:

"A few days before Yeardley Love’s death, George Huguely V sent her an e-mail that said in part: 'I should have killed you,' " The Post reported.

The trial is expected to last two weeks.