A neighbour to a party that ended with an innocent teenager being killed says they felt frightened in their own home.
Connor Whitehead, 16, was shot dead at the party in Christchurch in November 2021 and two men have been charged with his murder and are on trial at the High Court in Christchurch.
It was a birthday party that ended with the tragic death of a teenager and is now the focus of a jury trial.
Constable Hamish Marriott was one of the first responders, performing CPR on Connor Whitehead.
He told the court when he first tended to Whitehead he thought he was around 20 years old.
"Each time I'd stop the CPR I'd look at him again and then I was realising he was a whole lot younger each time, he was just a child effectively," Const Marriott told the court.
Daniel Sparks and Joshua Smith are charged with murdering Whitehead, who was an innocent bystander at a party that had become overrun by gatecrashers and descended into chaos.
A neighbour described to the jury how the night had unravelled.
"Things started to take a bit of a turn around 10pm to 11pm, it started getting nasty. I could hear a lot of aggression, yelling, I was quite frightened by that because it was grown men," the neighbour, who wishes to remain anonymous, said.
They were so frightened they moved from their lounge into their kitchen.
"I heard a man yelling 'f***ing shoot me c**t, shoot me c**t', and then I heard a noise which was a gunshot," the neighbour said.
"I heard a second gunshot a couple of seconds later and I heard a car taking off and then I heard distressing screaming and I rang police straight away."
The court also heard from a partygoer who said they saw a man with a gun.
"I went back up the drive and started telling the people who were in the middle of the driveway, in the porch to get inside - there was a gun," they said.
Day after day, Whitehead's family comes to court to sit in the public gallery and hear multiple accounts of his last moments.
