A security guard has described seeing a man with a gun in a St. George club, and fleeing just moments before a teenager got shot.

Edmund Phillips was monitoring the bar area at the Royal Artillery Association club during a reggae party there on the night of April 3.

He was stood down from his duties just before 3 a.m. on April 4, but then a scuffle broke out in the bar area, where around ten people were still drinking, Supreme Court heard.

Giving evidence yesterday in the trial of two men accused over the shooting, Mr. Phillips said he tried to get out of the way of the scuffle, which got "real loud."

"I saw a gun," he told the jury. "It was happening all so fast. As I'm moving and quickly rushing and looked over my shoulder, I heard a shout saying 'a gun!'. I quickly looked over. I saw it dangling in a man's hand.

"My concern was 'I need to get out one way or the other'."

Mr. Phillips said the scuffle broke into a smaller group, with people rushing into the games room. At that point, he saw an opportunity to get out of the bar, and left.

Quizzed about the weapon by prosecutor Robert Welling, Mr. Phillips said it was black. He could not describe the man whose hand he saw it in. "How did you feel about seeing a gun?" inquired the prosecutor.

"Not comfortable," replied the witness after a pause.

Mr. Phillips explained that he passed his supervisor as he left the venue, and warned the supervisor not to enter the bar.

"That's when I heard it go off," he said. "I heard the sound. It was a sound of a gun being shot."

Asked by Mr. Welling if he smelled anything, Mr. Phillips added: "It's a smell you never forget. It was the smell of gunpowder."

The prosecutor then asked: "Having heard that sound and smelled that smell, what did you do?"

"I ran as fast as I could," replied Mr. Phillips. "Ran out the door, jumped in my car and I left."

He later explained that it was the first time he'd ever been to the club and he's not been back since.

The man accused of bringing the gun to the venue is Khyri Smith-Williams, 19, from Sandys. Prosecutors allege that 29-year-old Dwayne Signor from St. George then seized the weapon during the scuffle and used it to shoot 18-year-old Shawn Williams, from St. George, in the back.

The bullet hit Mr. Williams' kidney and ruptured his colon. Mr. Smith-Williams suffered a stab wound and slashes during the fight.

Signor is accused of attempting to murder Mr. Williams, shooting at him with a loaded firearm with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and possessing a firearm and a 9 mm bullet. Smith-Williams is accused of carrying a firearm and going armed in public so as to cause terror.

They deny the charges and the case continues.