BLOOMINGTON - A reluctant witness testified Wednesday that Keiahty Jones drove the car to the scene of an April 6 shooting outside a west Bloomington housing complex.

Jones, 21, and Eddie Spice, 18, are charged with aggravated battery with a firearm for spraying birdshot into a crowd of people outside the housing complex. Jones also faces a charge of aggravated unlawful use of a firearm.

Jones is accused of being the driver of a car that brought three other young men to the complex, and Spice is charged with spraying the shotgun pellets into the crowd that included young children.

Three people were injured in the shooting. The trial is being heard in McLean County Circuit Court.

After being an uncooperative witness earlier in the day, Eric Clark-Phifer, 16, testified that Jones drove the car but did not get out at Evergreen Apartments. Clark-Phifer and a second teen were not charged.

In a hearing outside the jury, Clark-Phifer said his hesitancy to testify was based upon fears of retaliation by people connected with the incident.

"I thought I was going to put myself and my family in danger," said Clark-Phifer, who was reluctant to identify Jones in the courtroom.

The youth said he thought the group was going to the apartments to settle the score with a boy who punched one of their friends earlier in the day.

The jury also heard Wednesday from Nadia King, a 16-year-old girl whose mother and brother were hit in the shooting. King is the cousin of Clark-Phifer.

King said the shooting was sparked by two disagreements earlier April 6, one involving several young men and her brother and the other involving her and the men. In a fight in the 800 block of West Market Street, King's brother knocked one of the men unconscious, she said.

Scott Kording, Jones' defense attorney, questioned King about differences between her testimony and police reports. She denied telling an officer that Jones was not one of three men she saw at the shooting.

Prosecutor Bill Workman said the state likely will close its case Thursday morning.