Nov 06, 2008 02:27 PM
An innocent 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 when she was 19 she was walking south in front of the Foot Locker on Yonge St. with her friend Helen Yiu when she saw a group of three or four black men in front of them on the crowded sidewalk.
"They were talking in a loud voice," she said today, her testimony translated by a Mandarin interpreter.
One of them was wearing a sports vest and a hat, while the other a leather jacket, she said.
"I didn't pay too much attention, I was talking to my friend," Su told prosecutor Kerry Hughes.
The man in the sports vest was about to turn and leave and then suddenly she saw flashes of light coming 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.
She held onto the door to support herself, feeling only numbness and not pain, Su said.
A man rushed to comfort her. She didn't dare to check if she was bleeding until paramedics arrived, which they did within seconds, she said.
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, which is still there.
It took her two years to recover, she said.
J.S.R. has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the 15-year-old schoolgirl's death, to five weapons charges and to six counts of attempted murder of six people injured at the scene, including Su.
The trial continues.
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