A TEENAGER shouted "it's going to get sticky" moments before he was shot dead, a court heard.
Malakai McKenzie, 19, was hit in the head after a gunman fired at a car outside The Hubb pub, Hucknall Road, Sherwood, in the early hours of April 21 last year.
Nottingham Crown Court heard four shots were fired, one hitting 19-year-old Mr McKenzie.
Timothy Spencer, prosecuting, said Cameron Cashin – one of three men accused of Mr McKenzie's murder – was the gunman.
As CCTV footage of the shooting was played in court, Mr Spencer said: "In the car were four young men. Mr McKenzie's brother saw Cameron Cashin approach.
"He heard Malakai shout out 'that's Cam, that's Cam, it's going to get sticky'.
"The prosecution suggests the evidence of the [CCTV] imagery supports the evidence of the two eyewitnesses – two of the McKenzies – who will tell you the gunman was Cameron Cashin."
Cashin, 21, of Liddington Street, New Basford, denies murdering Mr McKenzie, as well as three counts of attempted murder and one count of possession of a firearm.
Two other men, Malcolm Francis, 19, of Constance Street, Basford, and Ijah Lavelle-Moore, 21, of Nottingham Road, New Basford, also deny the charges.
The court has previously heard that the shooting was the third time in three months that Mr McKenzie had been shot at due to gang rivalry.
Continuing his opening of the prosecution case yesterday, Mr Spencer said the bullet which killed Mr McKenzie also hit an asthma inhaler in the pocket of one of his cousins sitting next to him in the rear of the car.
He said: "Shot one enters the car somewhere around the driver's side window and it passes through the car, and emerges through the rear windscreen. The expert says shot one did no damage to a human being.
"Shot two was a rather lower trajectory. It went down past the driver's side.
"It may be because of shot one that Malakai McKenzie leaned forward and took shot two in his head."
The court heard a third shot ended embedded in the car's bodywork, while a fourth passed through the vehicle.
Mr Spencer said Mr McKenzie was alive for a short time after being shot.
The car was driven to the City Hospital and then to the Queen's Medical Centre, where he was pronounced dead.
Mr Spencer told the court that Cashin phoned Lavelle-Moore, who was with Francis, at 3.43am – 18 minutes after Mr McKenzie was shot at 3.25am.
The court also heard evidence of how a resident in Bagthorpe Close, Sherwood, had called police minutes before the shooting to report a group of men congregating near her house.
Mr Spencer said: "The prosecution say that the woman's instincts that something wrong was happening was absolutely correct. This was criminal activity.
"This was, we say, the Cashin gang meeting up for a final rendezvous before moving on to The Hubb."
Jurors were shown CCTV footage of Cashin and three other men walking along Hucknall Road to the car park at The Hubb.
Mr Spencer said: "This shooting, we say, was not confined to the four who get themselves caught on camera.
"Others must have been involved. Others must have had roles to play."
The trial is set to continue today.
