A teenager denied claims he brought a gun to a party to be a "big man" on the night he got stabbed and his friend got shot.

According to prosecutors, Khyri Smith-Williams took the weapon to the Royal Artillery Association club in St. George's amid fears the Parkside Crew would be there.

His friend Ronnie Furbert told Supreme Court last week that Smith-Williams spoke of concern about Parkside before indicating he had a "bad boy" a gun outside.

It's the prosecution case that Smith-Williams, 19, managed to get the gun into the club somehow, before becoming confrontational with a group of St. George's men.

According to Mr. Furbert, Smith-Williams told one of the men, Kyle Tannock: "You don't know what I have", before lifting up his shirt.

That prompted Mr. Tannock to shout "he has a gun", before a fight began and a group of St. George's men tried to disarm Smith-Williams.

Smith-Williams, from White Hill, Sandys, got stabbed and knocked unconscious after his head was smashed through a window in the bar.

His friend Shawn Williams, 18, from Paget, got shot in the back.

Smith-Williams' co-accused Dwayne Signor, 29, admits grabbing the gun from among a group of men who were fighting over it. He told the jury yesterday that he panicked and accidentally pulled the trigger and shot Mr. Williams [see separate story on page 1].

The incident unfolded at the end of a reggae party at the club in the early hours of Easter Sunday.

Smith-Williams faces charges of carrying a firearm and going armed in public, while Signor is accused of attempted murder, shooting Mr. Williams with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and possessing a gun and bullet.

They deny the charges and both opted to give evidence in their own defence yesterday.

Answering questions from his lawyer, Jerome Lynch QC, Smith-Williams denied bringing a gun to the club, having a conversation with Mr. Furbert or mentioning the Parkside Crew.

He said he was drunk at the end of the party when he noticed a group of men standing in the bar one of whom put him in a grip.

"As soon as they tried to do that I stepped to the side and that's when I caught a punch to the face," he said. "Then all I can recall was my head going through the window and then I fell to the ground. I woke up on the ground."

He was unable to identify his assailants, and did not realise at first that his friend Mr. Williams had been shot.

"When I saw him on the ground I thought he was knocked out just like me. Then I saw the paramedics," he said, explaining he felt "enraged" when he found out what happened.

Smith-Williams told the jury he'd never seen Signor before, and met him for the first time when they both ended up at Southside Police Station after the incident.

But prosecutor Robert Welling suggested Smith-Williams was far from an innocent victim that night.

"Boys from the West are not cool with Parkside, are they?" he inquired of the accused. The trial has heard that Parkside are a group of men from the Hamilton area.

"I don't know," replied Smith-Williams.

"The fact is, isn't it, that you got access to a gun that night, didn't you? And you took it with you and you left it in your bike because that's what you told Ronnie Furbert," continued Mr. Welling.

"No, I never told him," replied the defendant.

"As you got drunker and drunker the more the temptation [was] to put that gun in your jeans. The temptation to have that and be the 'big man' in that club overwhelmed you didn't it?" he alleged. "And you got that in somehow, didn't you?"

Smith-Williams denied the allegations, and further suggestions that the St. George's men set upon him because he threatened them by flashing the weapon.

"How much trouble were you in when the people who owned that gun realised you'd lost it?" inquired Mr. Welling.

"I never had no gun," replied Smith-Williams.

The case continues.