A woman charged with helping her boyfriend after he was involved in carrying out a shooting has denied having any knowledge about the incident.

Roshaunte Davis told the Supreme Court yesterday that she learnt about the shooting much later, but prosecutors accused her of “playing the fool” and lying on the stand.

Ms Davis is on trial for knowingly assisting Shannon Dill after he committed an indictable offence, specifically wounding Lionel Thomas Jr, on April 30, 2014.

Dill has already pleaded guilty to charges related to the shooting of Mr Thomas, while two other men — Shelton Baker and Stacey Robinson — remain on trial for the incident, denying charges of attempted murder. Taking the stand, Ms Davis told the court that on the afternoon of April 29, she finished work and went to Dill’s home on Ewing Street. She said she slept there for several hours before the pair went to her home in Hamilton Parish. Once there, she said she went back to sleep. Ms Davis told the court that she woke up again at about 2.40am and found that Dill had left. She attempted to call him, but he did not answer. She then noticed a WhatsApp message from Mr Robinson, urging her to come to St David’s.

The defendant said she then drove to St David’s, where she waited alone by a tree near St David’s County Cricket Club for 40 minutes before Dill arrived on a motorcycle. She asked him what was going on and where his car was, but he did not answer.

Moments later, she said she saw a black car drive through the area, which Dill recognised as belonging to Female C, one of several people who cannot be identified because of a reporting restriction.

Ms Davis said she began to text Female B — Female C’s sister — to see if they were in the car. She indicated that they were, and a short while later the car came into the area and parked. Dill then went to the car and began to speak to the women.

“I heard him say, ‘Are you going to check the car for me, though?’” she said. “They said yes and drove off.”

Ms Davis said Dill then told her to follow him and rode to a nearby park. She followed and they both parked their bikes. Female B and Female C then returned in the car, telling Dill that his car was safe.

At some point, she said Mr Robinson and Mr Baker arrived in the area, and the group went to Female B’s home in St David’s with Ms Davis riding in Female C’s car.

“When I got there, Shannon asked me if I could go get the car,” she said. “I told him I was feeling uncomfortable and I was ready to go home. He said that as soon as we got the car, we could go home.”

She told the court that she and the other women went to retrieve the car based on his directions, but abandoned the effort when they were confronted by a man on a motorcycle who angrily questioned them about what they were looking for.

Frightened, she said the women rode back to her home. Later that morning, she said she called Dill, who again asked her if she could pick up his car. “I told him I’m not getting his car, I’m not leaving my house,” she said. “Then he asked if I could call a tow truck.”

She called a trucking company and was told by the person on the phone that they had already received a call from Police to collect a car from the same area, causing her to hang up the phone and call Dill back.

“I asked him why the f*** the police were picking up his car,” she said. “He said he didn’t know. He just kept on beating around the bush. Then he said he would call me right back and hung up the phone.”

Ms Davis said she then went to work — her first day at a second job — but left early after being told that Dill had been arrested for attempted murder.

“I knew nothing,” she said. “I had no knowledge that anything of that sort happened. I kept calling Stacey to see if he knew anything about that night because I hadn’t seen any signs of a shooting or any signs of violence that evening. I hadn’t seen one officer or anything.”

During cross-examination, prosecutor Nicole Smith questioned how Ms Davis went to work after the shooting because, according to her evidence, she had left her bike in St David’s. She said that the bike had been brought back to her home at some point, but she did not know how, suggesting that Mr Baker may have returned it.

Ms Smith also said that Ms Davis had lied about her employment — either to the court or to the Department of Financial Assistance. While Ms Davis acknowledged that she was receiving full financial assistance and her job search forms showed no indication that she had found work, she maintained she had told them verbally that she had recently been hired.

She also maintained that she had called Dill at 2.40am after waking, despite Ms Smith suggesting that the phone records showed otherwise. Ms Davis accepted that the phone records before the court did not show the phone call, but other records did, and while several “data events” occurred during the period she said she was asleep, it did not mean she was awake and using the phone.

The trial continues.