LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- It was an emotional day for one victim. The owner of the home invaded in November of 2005 testified she thought her captors would kill her, after they bound, duct-taped, stripped her and held a gun to her head, while her child watched.

The witness said she was certain she and five others would be killed the night the defendant, Alberto Robles, allegedly entered her home with two others, and remained for about 10 hours.

The witness said, “They were saying ‘Have you ever seen the valley of the shadow of death.’”

State prosecutor Jacinto Palomino asked, “What did that mean to you?”

The victim replied, "that they were going to kill us.”

Alberto Robles, 30, listened as the victim testified. The witness said she never saw Robles' face that night, because two men were wearing ski masks. A police informant placed Robles at the scene with the other two men who have already pleaded guilty.

Prosecutors sai Robles' acquaintance Urian Jiminez accused the victim of taking $3,000 in alleged drug money that he had left at her home.

“I told him that we didn't have the money,” said the victim.

In disbelief, she said, the torturers allegedly stripped the four adults in the home, tied them up and burnt them with metal tongs. The victim said she was later allowed to tend to two screaming kids, one her own.

“At that point I was in shock. I just somehow tried to calm them down,” said the victim, as she cried.

Later the adults and kids were moved into a bedroom at gunpoint when the gun went off. No one was hurt by the bullet.

“The guy in the black hoodie put the gun to the back of my head and he started counting down 3, 2, 1,” said the victim.

“What did you think was going to happen when he got to one?” asked Palomino.

“That he was going to shoot me,” said the victim.

She said while in the bedroom, all six people including the children were tied up, with duct tape placed over their eyes and mouths. The witness was shown a picture of her daughter taken moments after police arrived.

When asked to describe it she cried, “That's my daughter, that's what they gagged her with and that's duct tape.”

The state prosecutor said Robles could face 173 years behind bars if given a maximum sentence.