VIDALIA — The last day of Reginald “Chucky” Green’s life was spent riding around Ferriday, smoking marijuana and attending a barbecue, his friends testified Thursday.

Kenneth Leonard, also known as Nut Nut, was in the Chevy Blazer with Green when Green was shot and killed on April 3, 2010.

Leonard testified that he crawled out of the parked Blazer once he heard the gunshots. Leonard, who is currently serving a five-year prison sentence for possession of cocaine, appeared in court with his wrists handcuffed and chained to his waist, admitted he had sold drugs the morning of the murder.

Leonard said he overheard Green argue on the phone the day of the murder with defendant, Bryant Bethley. Others testified Green accused Bethley of stealing $700 from Green’s mother. Leonard said he did not know the nature of the argument.

Bethley is on trial for second-degree murder of Green and attempted second-degree murder of Leonard and the other two passengers.

Daniel Butler is also being tried with second-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder because of his presence during the murder with Bethley. In addition, Butler is on trial for obstruction of justice stemming from the accusation that one witness said he emptied a magazine of its bullets onto the street following the murder.

Sometime after dusk, Leonard testified, Green picked him up in the Blazer at Leonard’s mother’s house after they had both changed clothes for the night.

Kevin Carter, who is also known as Man Man, and Myesha Leonard, who was Green’s girlfriend and Kenneth Leonard’s cousin on his mother’s side, were also in the car with Green.

After stopping at a store and briefly at an apartment complex, Green drove back toward his friend’s house at 803 Alabama Ave., where they barbecued that afternoon.

Leonard and Carter both testified Lamar Butler, or Lil Man, the owner of the tan Lincoln LaSebra with rims later identified as the getaway car, was also at the store.

Carter said Green stopped the car at the house on Alabama Avenue. As soon as Green stopped the car turned on the overhead light, Carter started to hear the gunshots.

Myesha said she did not know where the gunshots came from but knew they were close.

“I felt like (the bullets) came from my side because I felt the pressure,” she said.

She said, while wiping tears, she then crossed over Green, who she knew was dead already, jumped out of the driver’s side window toward the house and crawled inside the house.

“I knew he was dead on the spot,” Myesha said. “I figured if he was alive he’d be gone before me.”

Myesha said she did not see the shooter or anyone in the street outside the house, and the gunfire was the first sign she had someone was shooting at the car.

At District Attorney Brad Burget’s questioning, Myesha said she believed she would have been shot if she had moved her head slightly forward or backward during the fire exchange. Burget noted that physical evidence showed shots came from the passenger side window.

Kenneth, who said he was sitting in the back seat behind Myesha, said he kicked Carter out the driver’s side back seat and crawled on the ground behind Carter.

Kenneth then said he saw Bethley with the same rifle Burget showed him in court, and Bethley touched him on the head with it.

“I believe he was trying to kill me,” Kenneth said.

Kenneth said he did not get cut from glass from the window, but he had blood on him. Burget showed Kenneth a crime scene photo of the victim’s brain matter and blood splatters in the back seat — the space where Kenneth said he crawled through.

Carter, who said he never saw who the shooter was, immediately got out of the car and ran between houses to his mother’s house on Sixth Street.

Markita Robinson, who was in high school at the time of the murder and lived at 803 Alabama Ave., also testified at as an eyewitness.

Robinson said she was standing outside her house facing the street and saw Bethley shooting at the car. Robinson, who called Green “Big Brother,” made the initial 911 call to report the shooting.

Upon cross examination by Bethley’s attorney, Derrick Carson, Robinson said she did not see Bethley pointing a gun at Kenneth.

Jurors also heard from Andres Cauley, who pleaded guilty September 2010 for obstruction of justice relating to the Green murder.

Cauley said he was at a car wash when he was told about the murder, which occurred shortly after 10 p.m.

Cauley, who testified in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs because of a recent arrest for which he had not yet made bond, said he was with Bethley during the first part of the day.

Cauley said Green’s Blazer drove by a house where he and Bethley were that afternoon with several other people, including women and children. Someone in Green’s car held a gun out the window. Cauley, who said he had been drinking all day, went to his mother’s house shortly after that to get away from the situation involving the gun.

“I’m (not) going to be around (any) guns,” Cauley said. “I (didn’t) have any beef with anyone.”

Cauley said after the murder Daniel Butler and others gathered near his house and he saw Butler empty the cartridges onto the street. Cauley then picked up the cartridges and put them in a culvert.

He said after receiving a call from Reginald Butler, who has pleaded guilty to Green’s murder but not yet been sentenced, Cauley recovered a Bushmaster from a nearby abandoned house and got rid of it as instructed.

A Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries law enforcement officer testified Tuesday he discovered the Bushmaster near a bridge in Black Bayou. Which was in the same place Cauley said he threw it.

Cauley also said Bethley’s grandmother called him early the next morning after the murder and asked him to roll Bethley’s car windows and move it because she thought the Greens might try to burn it.

Court will resume today and defense attorneys said they plan to present their cases, which they said should not take long.