A witness has described seeing one of his old schoolfriends get shot at a reggae party allegedly by another of his mates.

Ronnie Furbert, 20, from St. George's, was at the Royal Artillery Association (RAA) club with a group of local friends early on Easter Sunday.

That group included Dwayne Signor, 29, of St. George's, who Mr. Furbert has known for three or four years.

Signor is now on trial at Supreme Court, accused of pulling the trigger on Shawn Williams, 18, in the midst of a heated brawl.

Mr. Furbert attended CedarBridge Academy with Mr. Williams, and described him as a friend.

Describing the moment of the gunfire, Mr. Furbert told the jury yesterday: "At first I heard a clicking sound as if metal was on metal. I just heard it. I couldn't tell where that came from. I heard a shot and Shawn just screaming out.

"The only way I could tell was from seeing a movie and from being in the army. It was a 'pap' sound 'pap' just once. It came from the area where Dwayne was standing when I heard it.

"I froze up. Shawn screamed out as if he was hit and hurt. I tried to leave after that."

Mr. Williams suffered a single bullet wound to the back, which hit his left kidney and perforated his colon.

Williams and Mr. Furbert also went to CedarBridge with another man, Khyri Smith-Williams, 19, from Sandys, who's accused of sparking the bloodshed by carrying the gun to the club.

Earlier in his evidence as first witness for the prosecution, Mr. Furbert explained how Smith-Williams asked him prior to the incident if there were any "Parkside guys" at the club.

Smith-Williams allegedly then signalled that he was carrying a gun.

"He just indicated that he had 'the bad boy' outside and then pointed his fingers like a child with a gun," said Mr. Furbert, demonstrating this to the jury.

"I took it to mean that he had a gun outside... the finger expression showed me what he was trying to portray."

Mr. Furbert explained Parkside are "a group of boys that everybody pretty much despises right now. A bunch of people from the town area".

He further explained that people from St. George's "don't get along" with people from Parkside.

He described how Mr. Williams got into a dispute later in the evening with a friend of his from St. George's named Kyle Tannock. Smith-Williams got involved and lifted up his shirt, causing Mr. Tannock to shout out "he has a gun".

According to prosecutors, Smith-Williams was carrying a firearm in the waistband of his jeans.

A scuffle broke out between some St. George's men and Smith-Williams. According to Mr. Furbert, Signor took the gun from among the fighting group and pointed it at Williams, who was fighting with a St. George's man named Jason Barnett.

At that point, he heard the shot, then saw Signor run out of the club.

Mr. Furbert was arrested on suspicion of murder after the incident, spending two nights in Police custody. He agreed with Smith-Williams' lawyer Jerome Lynch QC, that he lied to the Police in his first two interviews. He admitted telling them he did not see the shooting in order to keep out of trouble himself.

However, Mr. Furbert insisted he gave a true account to the Police in a third interview and a true account to the jury yesterday. "It's about doing the right thing," he told the court.

Signor and Smith-Williams deny a string of firearms charges and the case continues.