'Snitch' shot at in drive-by hit, jury told
A man has told a jury of the moment a shotgun was fired at him as he was targeted in a drive-by shooting in the Black Country.
Sufiyan Khan was sat in the passenger seat of a Peugeot 107 when a car pulled up alongside and shots were fired from the back seat, a court was told.
Khan had been branded a 'snitch' for reporting a robbery and had been stabbed less than a month before the late-night shooting in Smethwick, a judge was told.
Tyrell Harris, aged 18, is accused of both attacks on Khan.
Giving evidence at Wolverhampton Crown Court, the victim described seeing the rear window come down followed by two shots, which smashed the windows of the Peugeot he was sat in.
Khan told how his friend pulled up in Green Street having just returned from a shop to get cigarettes on August 14 last year when he noticed a silver VW Golf parked further up the road.
He told the court: "The silver golf was coming up High Street with no lights on. It was coming up really slowly and on the wrong side of the road – that's what made me a bit wary. The silver golf parked right next to me, the back window came down and two shots came straight through our car."
Both Khan and his friend avoided serious injury as glass rained down on them and the Golf sped away from the scene.
Khan said the driver of the Golf had a black scarf covering his face but claimed he saw Harris fire the shotgun.
Harris, of Abbeyfield Road, Erdington, Birmingham, and Bennett, of Laurel Drive, Smethwick, pleaded not guilty to wounding with intent. Harris also denies attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.
The trial continues.
