A bystander injured in the gun battle that killed schoolgirl Jane Creba says she saw flashes seemingly coming from a man's chest before she felt her leg go numb.
Jeyie Su testified at the murder trial of a man who can only be identified as J.S.R. that at age 19 she was walking south in front of the Foot Locker on Yonge St. on Boxing Day in 2005 with her friend Helen Yiu when she saw a group of three or four black men on the sidewalk.
"They were talking in a loud voice," she said yesterday, her testimony translated by a Mandarin interpreter.
One of them was wearing a sports vest and a hat, while the other had a leather jacket, she said.
"I didn't pay too much attention, I was talking to my friend," Su told prosecutor Kerry Hughes.
As the man in the vest was about to turn away he suddenly wheeled, pointed in her direction, and she saw flashes from the middle of his body, she said.
"I felt numb on my leg. I also heard the noise of pomp, pomp, pomp," she said.
"I fell but not completely to the ground. I tried to walk slowly to the inside of a store," she added.
Su held onto the Foot Locker's door to support herself, feeling numbness, not pain. Her friend Yiu, also injured, was seconds behind.
Su was taken to Sunnybrook hospital with bullet wounds to her right calf and ankle. She had two operations to remove the bullets and to put a screw in her ankle.
J.S.R. has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in Creba's death, weapons charges and six counts of the attempted murder of six people injured at the scene, including Su and Yiu.
Carl Turner, a lawyer exiting Future Shop across the street with his family, said he heard "a couple of pops" that drew his attention.
"I saw at least one person with a gun facing south down the street," Turner said. "The gun looked as if it was pointing slightly downwards."
He heard three or four more popping sounds and smelled sulphur.
"I essentially jumped on top of my son and we scurried a few metres down the street and behind a taxi cab," he said.
The shooter was a black male, age 17 to 22, with no facial hair, he said. J.S.R. is a black male who was 17 and had a moustache and goatee at the time.
Jessica Fung, Turner's girlfriend, testified the shooter had a dark complexion and wore a toque. J.S.R. is a light-skinned black man who was wearing a bandana and ball cap.
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