Kevin Jackson spoke of Billy Wayne Haynes as someone who violated the ideal of family in the Aryan Circle.

Although members in the gang call each other brothers and sisters, Jackson said Haynes violated that trust when he tried to pass blame to another member for the shooting of Rey Valdez.

Haynes is charged with murder and engaging in organized criminal activity-murder in connection with the Oct. 9, 2008, shooting death of Valdez.

A former lovers’ argument set a chain reaction of events that led to a fistfight at one location and, shortly after, a retaliatory gunfight at another location.

Jackson said he was willing to serve time in prison with Haynes for the shooting until Haynes tried to tell everyone to blame George Scott for the shooting.

“I wasn’t fixin’ to point my finger at George Scott,” Jackson said. “Seven people in our organization were looking at life in prison. We were all willing to suffer because one man didn’t want to own up to what he did.”

As a former district captain in the organization, Jackson said he could not sit by and let three women, who have children, face a life sentence and have an innocent man get blamed for the shooting.

He went as far as to say Haynes “wasn’t man enough” to face his charges.

As the rest of the members testified, Jackson said he didn’t know anyone had a gun and didn’t expect what happened at the house.

“I had no intention of going over there and shooting somebody,” he said. “We didn’t have a meeting and say we were going to kill somebody.”

Summer Wilkins, Hannah Fierros, Scott, Jackson, David Callaway, Greta Caldwell and Kenneth Griffin all said during testimony Thursday that they didn’t know they were going to a gunfight. They said they believed it was going to be a fistfight or a one-on-one confrontation.

Horace Chunn, who also rode with the group, said he didn’t even know where they were going or why. Chunn and Fierros were the only two in the group that were not part of the Aryan Circle at the time. The rest have since stopped associating with the group.

Ashley Barina, who is the mother of Valdez’s two children, said she remembers Valdez coming back that night after leaving suddenly with her father, Dwain Barina, and their family friend Tracey Roupp.

“He started trying to talk to me that there might be people coming over to the house and he didn’t know what kind of trouble there was going to be,” she said.

It was then when the two vehicles pulled up to the house.

“I remember my dad saying, ‘Take another step forward,’ and they all started backing up out of the gate,” she said.

She named the child she was four months pregnant with at the time after the father: Rey Valdez.

Micah May, a man who is waiting to plead on a burglary of habitation charge, said Haynes threatened him in jail on Wednesday because he knew May was going to be testifying.

In conversations with Haynes, May said Haynes confessed to shooting Valdez and even said he wasn’t going to prison because the weapon wouldn’t be found.

Jackson and Summer Wilkins, who testified Wednesday, will have their charges dismissed by the District Attorney’s Office in exchange for their testimony. Scott will be given plea deal of two years for the engaging in organized criminal activity charge, which he already has served.

Fierros, Callaway and Caldwell were no-billed in the case and Griffin and Chunn were not charged.

The prosecution rested its case Thursday afternoon and the trial will continue with the defense’s case at 9 a.m. Friday. Judge John Smith said he expects the guilt/innocence and sentencing phases of the trial to conclude today.

BEFORE THE SHOOTING

What transpired up until the shooting, according to the opening statement by the prosecution:

Tracey Roupp became angry with his child’s mother, and still roommate, Hannah Fierros and her boyfriend George Scott; Scott is a member of the Aryan Circle.

When Fierros wanted to bring Scott home alone, Roupp called Dwain Barina and Rey Valdez, who was dating Barina’s daughter.

The three got in a fight with Fierros and Scott. Fierros then threatened Barina.

Fierros and Scott called several other Aryan Circle members; David Callaway, Kevin Jackson, Greta Caldwell, Summer Wilkins and Billy Wayne Haynes, all of whom met outside Barina’s home at 7305 Hughes Lane. Kenneth Griffin and Horace Chunn also were called but are not Aryan Circle members.

Callaway, Jackson, Caldwell, Wilkins, Scott, Fierros and Haynes were initially arrested and charged in the murder, but Fierros, Caldwell and Callaway were not indicted.