An eyewitness described for a Superior Court jury Tuesday about her friends’ final moments before they were gunned down in the early hours of Oct. 1, 2017 in the busy parking lot of downtown Toronto’s Rebel nightclub.

“All I remember was an arm coming out of the vehicle and shooting him in the head,” the grim-faced 22-year-old woman said, testifying to her memory of seeing a gunman inside a black SUV shooting Zemarai Khan Mohammed.

“What did you do next?” asked Crown attorney Anna Tenhouse.

“(I) went into panic mode ... I was running backwards, everyone was running backwards,” the woman, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, said in a quivering voice. That was then she noticed Tyler McLean collapsed on the ground. At first, she thought the nightclub promoter had fainted, and then she “realized he had been shot.”

Abdirisaq Ali and Tanade Mohamed are both charged with second-degree murder in the double killing.

Defence lawyer Richard Posner has already told the jury his client was the triggerman who killed both men. The jury has seen surveillance camera footage clearly establishing Mohamed and Ali at the club that evening.

Because prosecutors are still calling evidence, the jury has not heard the defence theory of the case.

The prosecution alleges the fatal shootings stemmed from a confrontation the two accused had with two valet attendants over their refusal to pay a $30 parking fee. Tanade Mohamed then got into a brief dispute with McLean, which was broken up by a paid-duty police officer. McLean and Mohammed were shot moments later as they walked to their car in the parking lot with two women, including one on the witness stand Tuesday.

But her testimony ended abruptly after she took exception to Posner’s cross-examination.

“Are you calling me a liar?” she snapped after the defence lawyer asked her to explain an inconsistent memory about where she had been drinking before arriving at the club to meet McLean.

After denying that he had called her a liar, Posner returned to questioning her about what, and how much, she had to drink, which prompted another angry response.

“I was very intoxicated, but I know what I saw ... I saw two people die that night,” the woman said and then asked for a break.

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She left the court followed by a support dog and the animal’s handler. About half an hour later it was announced the case, which began in front of a jury last week, had ended for the day.

The trial continues Wednesday.