An eyewitness to a Feb. 5, 2006, Lawrence shooting identified the defendant as the man who fired several shots at a Topeka man, who later died.

During testimony this morning in the murder trial of 20-year-old Rashawn Anderson, Topeka, Colorado-based jazz artist Damon Jones, 32, pointed out Anderson as the man who fired the shots, based on the style of jacket Anderson wore that night.

“Is this the same individual you saw walk up on the left side of your van and pull the trigger that night?” asked Trent Krug, assistant Douglas County district attorney.

“Yes,” Jones said.

Jones made the identification based on a home video shot by a contractor for the record label. The video, which was time-stamped, recorded events outside the Granada, 1020 Mass., minutes before the shooting. Krug had paused the video that showed an image of Anderson wearing a tan or brownish heavy coat.

Prosecutors allege Anderson fired the shots after a hip-hop concert outside the Granada that eventually killed Robert Earl Williams, 46, and injured Pierre Burnette, 24, of Kansas City, Kan.

Denver-based rap artist Doe, who is a nephew of Williams and originally from Topeka, was the headline act during the show. In the aftermath of the shooting, city leaders began discussing downtown safety.

Jones said he was sitting in a van parked on Massachusetts Street facing the Granada when he said he saw a black man in a “Carhartt-style” jacket walk beside the van, pull up his hood and begin firing shots. Jones said he sat a few feet away and believed the shooter fired five to six shots.

“The focus was Doe’s uncle. All the shots were – from what I could see – the shots were going into (Williams’) coat,” Jones said.

According to the video and earlier testimony, Williams had been involved in several arguments that night with different people but not Anderson.

“I was a little shocked. I was like, tripping on what happened,” Jones said. “I didn’t really know what was going to happen next.”

Jones said he then saw the shooter walk around the passenger side of his van, converse with another man before getting into a car that sped away.

Defense attorney Tom Bartee asked Jones why he did not mention the Carhartt jacket in a statement he wrote for police during his original interview with officers. Jones also said officers had not shown him any kind of photo lineup but that he watched the video with officers after he made his written statement. At that time he pointed out Anderson to police.

“It was the coat because that’s what I recall more than anything,” Jones said.