The nephew of Harrisburg Police Chief Thomas Carter was gunned down in the middle of the street in broad daylight, a man who claimed he witnessed the slaying told a Dauphin County jury Tuesday afternoon.



Norbell Lynch testified that he saw the whole thing when 36-year-old John Thomas Carter was fatally shot in the 2200 block of Green Street on Easter Eve of 2016. And he identified 20-year-old Shawn Jones, who is being tried on a first-degree murder charge, as one of the gunmen.



Jones' lawyer, Roy Galloway, has been contending that Lynch is actually the one who shot John Carter in the back.



Chief Deputy District Attorney Johnny Baer, who is seeking a life prison sentence for Jones, called Lynch as a witness during the second day of the trial. Lynch also testified in January when another jury convicted Jones' co-defendant, Glenn Walker III, of first-degree murder.



Lynch said John Carter was killed just before 4:30 p.m. on March 26, 2016 after he confronted Jones, Walker and another man, Taji Abdullah. Baer said the dispute involved glances John Carter and Abdullah exchanged when Carter passed by in an SUV.



Abdullah punched John Carter, and then Walker and Jones jumped into the fight, punching and kicking John Carter while he was on the ground, Lynch said. He said John Carter got free and ran down Green Street.



Jones and Walker ran after John Carter, Lynch said. "I saw Mr. Shawn Jones and Glenn in the middle of the street. They were shooting at him in broad daylight," he testified.



He told Baer he is "100 percent" sure Jones and Walker were the gunmen. He said he saw John Carter stagger, apparently from the shot that investigators said hit him in the shoulder and caused him to bleed to death.



Lynch said he initially told police he didn't see the shooting because "I didn't want to get killed." He said he later told police what he saw because "It was hurting my heart."





Video shows moments before murder of Harrisburg police chief's nephewBaer has been showing the jury a video of the incident shot by a home security camera. That video doesn't show the shooting, but does show Jones and Walker running after the fleeing John Carter. Another man is seen running after them.



That third running man wasn't him, Lynch said, because leg injuries from a shooting years ago make it difficult for him to even walk. Baer had him show his scars to the jury.



Earlier in the day, Taji Abdullah had testified that Lynch was the unidentified running man.



On cross-examination, Galloway stressed that Lynch didn't tell police he had witnessed the shooting until six months after it occurred. Lynch only gave that information after being arrested in a drug case, the defense attorney noted.



No charges have been filed against Lynch in that drug case, Galloway observed. "Nobody promised me nothin' " in return for his testimony at the murder trials, Lynch said.



Galloway confronted Lynch with what he insisted were discrepancies in statements Lynch gave to police and what he said in his trial testimony. Lynch replied that he remembers the shooting more clearly now that he has stopped using drugs.



The trial is to resume Wednesday in Judge Deborah E. Curcillo's courtroom.



