A parade of school-age witnesses told Supreme Court how a beach party turned to bloodshed on the night Kellon Hill was murdered.

A 16-year-old girl described how one of the five teens accused of the killing, Kellan Lewis, "was kind of drunk, kind of wired up," that night. She also told the jury that he said "somebody's going to get beaten up", but she didn't believe him as "I've known him for a while and he puts on a show sometimes".

She described how after a fight broke out, she saw Mr. Hill swinging a helmet at a male she identified as "Poudie" before everyone present started running to the fight and she couldn't see anything anymore.

"People were jumping on each other, throwing helmets around," she recalled. "Somebody said, "Oh, he's bleeding."

Mr. Hill, 18, is alleged by prosecutors to have been set upon by the five defendants as he left a party at Elbow Beach 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. Kellan Jeaurreau Lewis, 17, is alleged to have had a knife. 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 alleged to have had a screwdriver. They deny the charges.

The Royal Gazette has decided not to name the young witnesses in the trial.

According to the 16-year-old yesterday, she saw Warner leaning against a wall after the fight. "He looked kind of agitated. Angry or something. He looked upset," she recalled.

Simmons, she added, pushed her away from Warner and the pair of them ran down to the beach with a group of others.

"I saw Kellon lying on the ground. Some girl had a shirt on his stomach and then this next girl was holding his head up," she said of the aftermath.

She agreed with John Perry QC, lawyer for Lewis, that the incident was "mayhem" followed by "pandemonium" and she could not see the details of what occurred.

A teenage boy who graduated from school this year told the jury he saw a fight break out at the party and heard that someone got stabbed.

Lewis, he said, was "shocked,", "timid" and "shaking" afterwards. "I went to him and asked what happened. He said 'I didn't do it. I didn't so it'," recalled the witness. He also recalled seeing a person and a screwdriver lying on the ground.

He agreed with Hollis' lawyer Saul Froomkin that he saw no weapons and no helmets used during the fight.

A 14-year-old boy took the stand next, and also described hearing screaming and seeing a fight, during which he saw a helmet and cane swung at Mr. Hill's head.

"The only person I knew in the fight was Gary Hollis," explained the witness, who has known him since primary school.

Mr. Hill, he said "couldn't do nothing, because there was a lot of people jumping on him." He described seeing Mr. Hill throwing fists to try to get them off him. Next, he said, a person made an action to pull something out their pocket. "I was trying to get out before something worse happened," the boy told the court. He agreed with John Perry QC that Lewis was not the person he saw going to pull something out of their pocket.

The case continues.