Convict: Man admitted role in Endia Martin’s murder, said she ‘deserved it’

A convicted felon who is currently behind bars for an aggravated robbery testified Wednesday that while he was in Cook County Jail, Donnell Flora admitted his role in Endia Martin’s murder and told him that the 14-year-old “deserved it.”

Tony Polk said he initially didn’t know who Flora was when they played cards while they were in the facility’s medical division in May 2014.

When another inmate told him that Flora was accused of giving his 14-year-old niece the gun she used to kill Endia weeks before, Polk confronted Flora, asking him “why the f—” he would do such a thing.

Testifying before Judge Thaddeus Wilson in the Leighton Criminal Courthouse, Polk said Flora responded by telling him not to believe everything he saw on the news.

But soon, Flora allegedly confessed that he gave the gun to his niece, who was embroiled in a long running “gang-related” feud with Endia’s family.

Polk said Flora admitted that he “coached” his niece before she opened fire on April 28, 2014.

“He [Flora] said he needed to make sure his niece was taken care of,” said Polk, 37.

Of Endia, Flora said:’That b—- got what she deserved,’” according to Polk.

Flora also called his niece a b—- for talking to detectives, Polk said.

“If that b—- never opened her mouth, I never would have been in this s—,” Flora fumed, according to Polk.

Flora, 27, is on trial for Endia’s murder and the attempted murder of her friend, Lanekia Reynolds, who was wounded in the incident in the 900 block of West Garfield.

Flora’s niece, now 16, is awaiting trial in Juvenile Court for the deadly crime prosecutors said stemmed from a Facebook battle Reynolds had with the accused shooter after they fought over a boy.

Defense attorney Joel Brodsky on Wednesday questioned Polk’s credibility, suggesting that Polk lied about talking to Flora in hopes of getting a lighter sentence for his aggravated robbery case.

Polk pleaded guilty to the aggravated robbery in 2014 and is serving a six-year prison sentence.

John Branscomb, who prosecutors said Flora passed the gun to after Endia was gunned down, also testified Wednesday.

Branscomb, now 19, said he was on his way to meet a friend on the South Side when he saw Flora fall from his wheelchair near 55th and Halsted.

When Branscomb helped Flora get up, Flora gave him a hoodie. Branscomb said he had no idea his pal’s uncle had just given him a gun.

“He [Flora] said, ‘Take this’. . . and I started to walk away,” Branscomb said.

That’s when the gun fell out from the sweatshirt.

“I though to myself, ‘Oh s—. What is this about?’ ” Branscomb said.

Branscomb, then 17, was apprehended by police soon after.

He was charged as a juvenile and is on probation for the weapons case.