Felicia Patterson testifies in a Douglas County courtroom Wednesday, March 9, 2011, during the trial of Durrell Jones. Jones is charged with first-degree murder in the Oct. 2006 killing of Lawrence hip-hop artist Anthony Vital.

A co-defendant of the man on trial for the 2006 killing of a Lawrence hip-hop artist on Wednesday drew a diagram of his version of the shooting death of Anthony “Clacc” Vital, 28.

Major C. Edwards Jr., 31, said Vital then got out of the front passenger seat and ran in front of the car, where he was met by Durrell Jones, 26, who had gotten out of the backseat, circled the car and met Vital where he shot him three times Oct. 14, 2006, in a rural driveway off U.S. Highway 24 about 2 miles west of Lawrence.

Vital’s body was found the next morning by a rural landowner. Edwards, who has already pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the case, has said that he picked up Vital that night because Jones, from Kansas City, Kan., wanted to collect a debt on Vital after supplying him with PCP.

Edwards said in the car Jones pulled out the gun and directed Edwards to keep driving until he got his money from Vital. Edwards later stopped the car outside of Lawrence.

Edwards said he was afraid Jones would then shoot him, so once they drove back to a Lawrence to return to a party at Felicia Patterson’s apartment on Sixth Street, he left town.

But defense attorney John Kerns has accused Edwards of admitting to shooting Vital and writing rap lyrics about it later.

Edwards has denied writing the lyrics. Kerns has also said Edwards is trying to pin the murder on Jones. Prosecutors have agreed to take four years off of his sentence in exchange for his testimony.

Prosecutors have told jurors that they can tie Jones to the murder weapon and that items left near Vital’s body included DNA evidence from both Edwards and Jones.

Other witnesses Wednesday included people who saw Jones and Edwards the night of Vital’s death, including Patterson.

Prosecutors will continue presenting witnesses at 9 a.m. today.