SEATTLE -- Prosecutors brought the car in which a man was fatally shot three years ago into a seventh-floor Seattle courtroom in the murder-for-hire trial of the victim's stepson.

Prosecutors wanted jurors to see the vehicle in which they said Ronald Whitehead, 61, was shot by Wilson Sayachack in a plot arranged by Whitehead's wife and his stepson, Jon Ogden.

Ogden, 20, is on trial on a charge of first-degree murder in the case. Prosecutors said he and his mother enlisted Sayachack, a 19-year-old friend of Ogden.

Most of the vehicle, a black Ford Mustang, was brought up by freight elevator in three pieces and assembled in about one hour Wednesday afternoon for a court session on Thursday.

Prosecutors allege that Sayachack was hiding in the trunk of the car as Whitehead was driving to his job at a Boeing facility in Bellevue on March 18, 2005.

According to court documents prepared by the prosecutor's office, Sayachack climbed through the folding back seat and shot Whitehead in the back of the head at an intersection near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Velma Ogden-Whitehead, 50, was sentenced last month to 22 years in prison in the case.

Two cases against Sayachack ended in mistrial. The first trial ended in a hung jury with most jurors favoring acquittal. The second ended after detectives investigating an unrelated drug case found a gun in a Puyallup home. Authorities said the gun was the one used to kill Whitehead.

Sayachack is scheduled to go on trial again in September.