NAHMIAS, Justice.
Appellant Jamaal Williams was indicted along with Alex Marshall, Melvin Daniels, Bennie Durham, and Kyle Oree for numerous crimes related to the shooting death of Robert Daughtry, Jr.
In this appeal, Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the kidnapping felony that served as the predicate offense for his felony murder conviction, as well as the trial court's admission of alleged hearsay statements. We affirm.
1. (a) Viewed in the light most favorable to the jury's verdict, the evidence presented at trial showed that Oree became angry at the victim and directed Appellant, Marshall, Daniels, and Durham to kill him. See Oree, 280 Ga. at 590, 630 S.E.2d 390 (reviewing the evidence more extensively). In the middle of the night, the four men armed themselves, left Oree's apartment, and went to the victim's trailer, where the victim was sleeping; his girlfriend, his roommate, and a neighbor were also there. The victim was pulled from his bed and beaten. The four assailants then dragged the victim out of the trailer and down a street to a brick wall behind a doctor's office near but outside the trailer park, where they beat him again before shooting him numerous times, killing him. See id. at 589-591, 630 S.E.2d 390.
(b) Appellant contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the asportation element of kidnapping as defined by this Court in Garza v. State, 284 Ga. 696, 670 S.E.2d 73 (2008).
Id. at 702, 670 S.E.2d 73. However, "this Court has not required satisfaction of all four factors to establish that asportation occurred." Hammond v. State, 289 Ga. 142, 145, 710 S.E.2d 124 (2011) (finding that the movement of the victim constituted asportation when the first two factors were not satisfied but the third and fourth were).
Appellant contends that the first Garza factor was not satisfied because the victim's movement was short, both temporally and physically.
Appellant also contends that the second Garza factor was not met because the victim's movement occurred during the commission of the separate offense of aggravated battery. The evidence, however, shows a demarcation between the aggravated battery offense (of which Appellant was acquitted) and the movement of the victim. The victim was beaten before and after he was moved by his attackers, first inside his trailer and later at the brick wall behind the doctor's office, but there is no indication of an aggravated battery occurring while he was being moved between the two locations.
Similarly, with regard to the third Garza factor, the victim's movement was not an inherent part of a separate offense. It was not a necessary part of the beating, which formed the basis for the aggravated battery offense, or of the shooting, which formed the basis for the murder and aggravated assault offenses.
Finally, Appellant argues that the fourth Garza factor — whether the movement itself presented a significant danger to the victim — was unsatisfied because the trailer from which the victim was moved was more secluded, and therefore less safe, than the brick wall to which he was moved. However, there were three people other than the victim in the trailer, which was situated in a trailer park, and no evidence of anyone else near the brick wall outside the park. The jury was therefore authorized to conclude that taking the victim to a secluded location outside the trailer in the middle of the night presented a significant additional danger to the victim. See Henderson, 285 Ga. at 245, 675 S.E.2d 28; Tate, 287 Ga. at 366, 695 S.E.2d 591.
In sum, all four Garza factors support the conclusion that the evidence was sufficient to prove the asportation element of Appellant's kidnapping and related felony murder offenses.
(c) Appellant also contends that because the record does not show that he personally participated in the physical movement of the victim, the State failed to prove him guilty of kidnapping and felony murder. However, the evidence clearly establishes that Appellant was a party to the crime of kidnapping, and thus he was culpable for the acts of his co-parties in moving the victim. See OCGA § 16-2-20. "`Since there was evidence that appellant was present when the crimes were committed and the jury could infer from [his] conduct before and after the crimes that [he] shared the criminal intent of the actual perpetrator[s], the evidence was sufficient to authorize [Appellant's] conviction as a party to [the crimes of kidnapping and murder].'" Hill v. State, 281 Ga. 795, 797, 642 S.E.2d 64 (2007) (citation omitted).
(d) When viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence presented at trial and summarized above was sufficient to authorize a rational jury to find Appellant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the crimes for which he was convicted. See Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979). See also Vega v. State, 285 Ga. 32, 33, 673 S.E.2d 223 (2009) ("`It was for the jury to determine the credibility of the witnesses and to resolve any conflicts or inconsistencies in the evidence.'" (citation omitted)).
2. Appellant contends that the trial court improperly admitted hearsay evidence by permitting a witness to testify to various out-of-court statements made by Oree and the other co-conspirators before and after the victim was killed. However, Appellant did not object to these statements at the time they were admitted at trial, which normally bars review of the alleged error on appeal. See Brooks v. State, 281 Ga. 514, 516, 640 S.E.2d 280 (2007).
Appellant suggests that these evidentiary issues are subject to review on appeal
We note that the new Georgia Evidence Code will change this rule for cases tried after January 1, 2013. See OCGA § 24-1-103(d) ("Nothing in this Code section [relating to evidentiary rulings and objections] shall preclude a court from taking notice of plain errors affecting substantial rights although such errors were not brought to the attention of the court."). However, this law-to-be does not aid Appellant's case today. Because Appellant failed to timely object to the alleged hearsay evidence introduced at his trial in 2004, he failed to preserve the issue for appeal.
Moreover, even if Appellant had timely objected on hearsay grounds, the objections would have been meritless. Appellant contends that OCGA § 24-3-5 requires the State to make a prima facie showing of the existence of a conspiracy before a co-conspirator's statement may be admitted as an exception to the hearsay rule. However, this Court has held that "[t]he trial judge may admit testimony by co-conspirators before the conspiracy has been proved, provided [the conspiracy's] existence is ultimately shown at trial." Livingston v. State, 271 Ga. 714, 719, 524 S.E.2d 222 (1999). Here, the evidence ultimately admitted at trial established that Appellant, the other three attackers, and Oree were part of a conspiracy to assault and kill the victim. See Oree, 280 Ga. at 589-590, 630 S.E.2d 390.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.