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A Brooklyn woman who encouraged her friends to attend a catfight that ended with two of them getting shot allegedly by a high school football player testified about the “traumatic experience” on Thursday.
“Even being here right now I get flashbacks of seeing his face, it’s really scary,” said Imani Lewis-Waldron at the attempted *** trial for Rahmel Ashby in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
Lewis-Waldron, 20, and Ashby’s sister Nyesha Bates had an ongoing argument on Facebook before they took it to the streets for an all-out brawl on April 29, 2014.
“No one would know what the fight was about except me and Nyesha,” snapped Lewis-Waldron during cross-examination and denied the spat was about their prostitution activity on Craigslist.
She was brought in under a material witness order because she said she was “scarred to testify.”
Lewis-Waldron's then boyfriend Rogelio King, 29, allegedly punched Ashby in the face.
“I watched (Ashby) shoot Rogelio. When he looked at me, I ran,” said Lewis-Waldron, who was not shot.
High School football star Rahmel Ashby at State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
(Jesse Ward/for New York Daily News)
Quinesha Reeves and Monay Langhorne were also shot, but did not identify Ashby as the gunman.
“I heard Quinesha screaming my name. I didn’t look back while running,” she said.
A week later, Lewis-Waldron identified Ashby, the star running back of Grand Street Campus High School, as the shooter to police.
“How could I not remember a traumatic experience,” she said to the defense attorney.
The prosecution is expected to rest their case Friday.