Audra Maynard couldn't hold back her tears as she recalled seeing her friend and roommate, Yessy Rivera, fatally cut the throat of a Lehighton man.

Maynard testified in Magisterial District Court on Friday as Rivera, 29, had a preliminary hearing on charges that he murdered 44-year-old Brian Lindner in the overnight hours of May 1.On Friday, Magisterial District Judge Eric Schrantz ruled that there was enough evidence for Rivera to face trial on the charges.Maynard, 47, said that sometime around midnight on May 1, she witnessed her friend cut Lindner's throat in the basement of a home on Coal Street in Lehighton where they had been staying. A state trooper also testified that Rivera confessed to the crime as he was driven to court to be arraigned on the charges."I was screaming. Jay just stood there. He just was blank," she said, referring to Rivera.Lindner's body was discovered on May 2, after a resident of the house contacted police.However it is believed that he died sometime around or after midnight on May 1.Maynard testified that the fatal confrontation occurred after she, Rivera, and a third resident of the home, Michael Jerden, had left a highly intoxicated Lindner in Allentown earlier the night of April 30.She said that the four of them had traveled to Allentown in Lindner's 2012 Dodge Avenger that day because Lindner wanted drugs. She said she drove, because Lindner had been drinking, using heroin and smoking marijuana, and that Jerden was also intoxicated."The impairment between the two of them was ridiculous. It was just a bad, bad day," she said.Once they got to Allentown, she contacted a friend to pick her up because Lindner was unruly, making lewd gestures and comments, particularly toward young women they saw on the road.At one point, she pulled over in a parking lot, and she said a fight ensued where Lindner struck both Rivera and Jerden. The friend then picked them up, but she kept Lindner's keys. Some time later, they returned to the lot, found Lindner had left the car, and took it to return to Lehighton.Later that night, or perhaps in the early hours of May 1, Lindner arrived at the Coal Street home and confronted Rivera in the basement area where he, Maynard and Jerden had gathered, she said. He repeatedly pushed Rivera, Maynard said.At some point in the argument, she said, she saw Rivera brandish the knife above his head. Lindner continued to hit and grab at Rivera, she said. Finally, she witnessed Rivera cut Lindner's throat before the man fell to the floor in a pool of blood.Maynard testified that after the crime occurred, she wanted to call police, but Rivera and Jerden refused to give her a phone. She said she was shocked and eventually just started driving in Lindner's car, with Rivera in the passenger seat. She said she ended up in Virginia when they both agreed that they should return to Pennsylvania and contact police about what happened.On May 2, Maynard traveled to Bethlehem and attempted to meet with a detective she knew and was taken into custody.Rivera was arrested at Maynard's home in Forks Township, Northampton County, after they found Lindner's vehicle outside.Rivera is being held in Carbon County Correctional Facility without bail. He faces charges of homicide, aggravated assault, and theft of a motor vehicle.