Another woman who also was in the robbers’ Nissan that night said Holston talked about robbing and shooting the man at Motel 6, she told police. She said on the way to the motel Holston pulled out his gun and declared, “This is my military weapon,” according to arrest documents. “They continue to talk each other up, saying things like, ‘We are real thugs and we got guns,’ ” according to records.