The following is a partial summary of the eight-page statement signed by Michael Scott.

WARNING: This summary contains graphic descriptions and details of the yogurt shop murders. Some material may not be suitable for younger readers.

Scott said on Dec. 6, 1991, he was with his friends Maurice (Pierce) and Robert Springsteen, Forrest (Welborn). He said all of the boys were at Northcross Mall and Pierce said he needed some money.

“Maurice and Robert talked about robbing a place … easiest way to get money.” He said the boys went driving around in Pierce’s gray Ford LTD to find a place to rob. He said Pierce entered the store and ordered a chocolate and vanilla swirl to distract the girls while he and Springsteen looked at the back of the store and then left through the rear exit. By the time the boys made it back around to the front, Pierce was back in the car with Welborn eating his yogurt. The guns were left in the car the whole time, he said.

“I know it was dark when we left Northcross Mall. Most of the businesses were closed when we got over to the yogurt shop. On the drive, they discussed what routes police often take around the area. They drove past the back of the store to make sure the door was still open and no one else was around. Welborn stayed in the car. He said Pierce and Springsteen had guns at the ready inside the car. Pierce also told Scott to bring a can of Zippo lighter fluid along. Pierce said the can was fuel to cover their tracks.

“Maurice went in first, then Rob and then I followed them. One of the girls said something like, ‘Hey you. What are you doing? You don’t belong here.’” He said the girl was wearing a white ICBY T-shirt. “I believe she was working in the backroom when we entered.” Under the orders of Pierce, Scott was to keep anyone from leaving.

“We were all surprised because we expected to find only two girls inside the store and there were two other girls.” Pierce told Scott to check the front door to make sure it was locked and that no one could see in. He said one key was in the lock and the door was locked.

“This went along and I got more and more scared,” he said.

He said he heard the cash register open and saw Pierce stuff something in his pockets.

“I heard the girls crying and one of the girls say that, ‘That’s all there is. It’s already been dropped you can’t get to it.’”

He said all the girls were then moved to the back of the restaurant with Springsteen. Scott asked “Where the f--- is the rest of the money?”

Springsteen said he wanted help and Scott went to the back and saw that all the girls were naked. He said they went to get some of the girls’ shirts and bras to tie them up.

“They were begging for us not kill them. They said they didn’t want to die. I don’t believe they were standing up because I was looking down at them,” he said.

Scott said he remembered trying to use a paper towel to gag one of the girls but that his finger went through. So he grabbed something else, “like terry cloth” and put that in her mouth – it was a sock. He said one girl was screaming. Pierce asked where the money was again. Scott heard a pop like a gunshot. Scott said the girl was dead and Pierce told him to check the door again.

Scott said he heard Pierce asked again for the money again. He heard another shot and that girl died. Scott returned to the back and saw Springsteen had a dark-haired girl on her knees and was “raping her hard.”

He said he told Springsteen it wasn’t right. Scott said he didn’t know if Springsteen “finished.” Scott said Pierce had gone into the office with the last girl and was trying to open the safe.

“Robert told me to do one of the girls.” He said he tried to have sex with her, but said, “I couldn’t get it up because I knew it was wrong. I looked at her face I didn’t want to look at her face.” He said he “faked it” for Springsteen.

“I remember grabbing the revolver from Maurice. I pointed the gun at her and tried to shoot at first but couldn’t. Maurice told me to do it or I would be next. I pointed the gun at the girl and fired once into her head. Pierce was still in the office with the safe and asked Springsteen if Scott had shot. Springsteen said, 'Yes.' He said the girl with the white shirt and dark hair was left. “Then I shot her in the head because (Pierce) and (Springsteen) pressured me.

Pierce asked Scott for the lighter fluid, which he had left it the car. He went back to get it. Springsteen told Scott to burn the girls. So Scott stacked them, put napkins, cup and paper towels on them, put the lighter fluid on them and lit the fire with his own Zippo lighter. He said then his only thought was to get out. But he said he had taken a knife from the counter of the yogurt shop. When they got outside, Welborn was no longer in the car waiting for them. The three boys got into the car to leave and saw Welborn and picked him up. He said they were only in the yogurt shop for 15 or 20 minutes.

He said they stopped at bridge 15 or 20 minutes away where he threw up and threw the knife from the bridge. He then described the guns that were used. He said the boys split off in twos with Scott and Springsteen together. Days later they gathered in a Jeep that Pierce had stolen and drove to San Antonio.

When Pierce got picked up at Northcross Mall, days later, with a gun. Scott and Springsteen knew they had to get rid of their gun. (Police said the gun that Pierce had was not the gun used in the murders.) Scott said he took the gun and hid it in a creek. In 1992, he asked a friend to get rid of a brown bag that had the gun in it. The friend, Patrick Davidson, did not know what was in the bag, although he suspected it was a gun. Davidson later threw the bag away.

Scott then told police, in his statement, that he had talked to attorney Betty Blackwell who advised him to not talk to police and get a lawyer as well as seek mental help. Scott told police the last thing he needed was a lawyer and continued to meet and cooperate with police.