Teenage witnesses described seeing murder-accused Gary Hollis being hit in the head with a motorcycle helmet on the night Kellon Hill was killed.

One girl giving evidence in the Supreme Court trial of Hollis and his four co-accused yesterday identified Mr. Hill as the one hitting Mr. Hollis.

The 16-year-old who The Royal Gazette is not naming due to her age initially told the court she saw Mr. Hollis being hit "like, three times" in the head. Later, she said she could not be sure of this.

When she ran towards the pair, she said they were fighting, adding: "When I say fighting, I only saw Mr. Hill hit Gary on his head."

The teenager said she went to school with Hollis and knew Mr. Hill through his cousin. She estimated that she was 30 feet away at the time of the incident. She ran off, but turned around to see Mr. Hill on the ground with a bloodstain on his clothes in the stomach area.

Mr. Hill, 18, is alleged by prosecutors to have been set upon by five teenagers as he left a party at Elbow Beach late last August 9. He died of a stab wound to the heart. The five accused are currently on trial at Supreme Court. Besides murder, each is accused of possessing a different weapon, which they allegedly used during the incident.

Kellan Jeaurreau Lewis, 17, is alleged to have had a knife and Kevin Andre Warner, 19, a wooden cane. Gary Rupert Hollis, 16, and Devon Vonzell Hairston, 18, allegedly wielded crash helmets while 17-year-old Zharrin Frankie Simmons the only girl charged is accused of having a screwdriver. They deny the charges.

Opening the trial earlier this month, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Michael McColm alleged that Lewis and Hollis approached Mr. Hill and snatched a gold chain from around his neck. Mr. Hill demanded it back but the pair refused, and a fight ensued. The prosecutor claimed the other three accused then joined the attack from nearby.

The court also heard yesterday from Coshea Cann, 17, who told the court she saw a person with "yellow skin" swinging a Nolan helmet at "Poudie" a nickname for Hollis who she'd met for the first time that night. Miss Cann described the person with the helmet as around 5 feet 5 inches tall, wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans.

She said she was 100 metres or so away at the time and the lighting was very dim.

Asked by Mr. McColm if she had a clear view of what happened, she replied "somewhat", explaining that no one was in her way, but a lot of people rushed to the area of the fight. She told Mr. McColm she could not see Hollis' hands.

Miss Cann further told the court that she saw Warner standing between herself and the fight. She had earlier travelled with him to the party on a bus, and he had a walking cane at that time. However, Miss Cann had not seen him with the cane since they arrived at the party.

She described "Zharrin" coming over and putting her arm around Warner and telling people to "get off her boy" as they were telling him to calm down.

"He was pacing up and down and looked agitated," she said of Warner.

Miss Cann left a short time later. As she walked up the hill away from the beach, she saw a person she'd not seen before lying on the ground, and saw an ambulance come.

In other evidence yesterday, two security guards who were working at the Coral Beach Club described coming across three "guys" on the property on the night in question.

Everton Webson said he spotted them as he started his shift around midnight, and when he and colleague Quinton Burch approached them in a golf cart, they ran off into some trees.

When they found them in the bushes, Mr. Webson said two of them were lying side by side.

"I shined a light on them and they still didn't move," he recalled, adding the other person was about ten yards away. "I couldn't really see him but he was there somewhere in the trees."

Mr. Webson told the trio: "Listen, I'm not going to call the Police. I just want you to get off the property."

At this point, four people emerged from the trees and said they were sorry, with one asking if he could borrow Mr. Webson's torch as he'd dropped something in the bushes.

When Mr. Webson handed it over, he and another youth went into the bushes and started using it to look around.

Mr. Webson told the court that the person wiped the torch on his shirt or T-shirt before handing it back.

The youth then walked off in the direction of South Road.

"The next day I saw a reporter guy, and he told us what happened," explained Mr. Webson who later discovered a sock in the area of the trees and showed Police the scene.

Mr. Burch gave a similar account of events.

He said that prior to getting in the golf cart and speaking to the four youths in the trees, he'd seen someone running out of the Coral Beach property onto South Road.

"The way they were running was very strange. I noticed they were running with their hands like they were carrying something," he explained, demonstrating this action to the jury.

Mr. Burch said he watched the four youths who had been in the trees walk off onto the main road and head west after they emerged.

"The first thing that struck me was how small they were. I assumed they had to be about 15 or 16."

The case continues.