KINGSTON, Jamaica — The driver of the taxi in which Khajeel Mais was shot in July 2011 today testified that Mais was struck by the first bullet fired at the car.

“The first shot fire from nowhere, he get hit and him chuck over on me on my back,” Wayne Wright told the Home Circuit Court on Friday.

The witness, who is continuing his testimony from yesterday, also insisted that he did not see the motor vehicle that the shooter was in.

“Gunshot was during my head was under my seat and when I look up I see Avon Drive,” he said.

The witness testified yesterday that on hearing the gunshot he ducked beneath his steering wheel and drove straight to Avon Place on his way to the Constant Spring Police Station

Businessman Patrick Powell is charged with shooting Mais, he is being tried for murder and shooting with intent.

It is alleged that Mais was travelling in a taxi which collided with a BMW X6 motor vehicle that was being driven by Powell. It is alleged that the driver of the BMW got out and fired at the taxi, hitting the boy.

Tanesha Mundle