A bouncer who stared down the barrel of a gun seconds before an enraged clubgoer opened fire on a crowded Flatiron street, killing one and wounding two others, recalled the tense moment for Manhattan jurors Monday.
“I’ll kill you n—a,” accused murderer Dalone Jamison seethed after he was tossed from Motivo Oct. 12, 2015, according to emotional testimony from bouncer Kennedy Bacchus.
“He drew his gun out of his pocket. He was aiming dead at me because I could see straight down the barrel.”
He added, “That’s when the shots went off and everyone scattered.”
The towering bouncer choked up as he described young mother Walikque “Grace” Faussett lying prone on the ground, barely alive.
“She was on her back gasping for air,” he said, his eyes welling with tears, in Manhattan Supreme Court.
“I took my hand and put it behind her back, and there was blood and that’s when I knew she got hit.” Faussett, who died of the wound, was friends with Jamison.
A few minutes earlier, bouncers had ejected the club promoter from the buzzing nightspot after he got into an argument with another patron.
“He said he was going straight to get his gun,” recalled Bacchus, who watched as Jamison marched down 21 Street to Fifth Avenue and retrieved something from the trunk of a car.
Prosecutors say that Jamison, his ego bruised, grabbed a .38-caliber pistol and returned to the since-shuttered club, to make good on his threat.
“While he approached us his hand was on the gun in his pocket and he kept flashing it,” Bacchus told jurors. Jamison allegedly squeezed off five shots, missing his intended targets.
Chilling footage played in court last month shows the moment Faussett, 24, collapsed on the ground and her best friend, Renee Rondot, who was struck in the hip, fell on top of her.
Defense lawyers Dawn Florio and Gloria Keum argued that Jamison wasn’t the shooter and that the bouncers who fingered him have an ax to grind.
The moment the defendant allegedly fired the gun is outside the video surveillance’s view.