Student doorman was shot at gig

A university student has told a court how he was shot while working as a doorman at a concert.

Aaron Waller, 22, told Leicester Crown Court was working at Loughborough University when he was hit three times at close range on 10 March 2007.

More than 1,000 people had gone to watch US act Pretty Ricky.

Mr Waller identified the man who shot him as Jermain Carty, 30, of Canary Grove, Birmingham, who denies attempted murder and possession of a firearm.

He said Mr Carty had earlier been causing trouble, threatening security staff and calling them "white trash".

As Mr Waller tried to flee, he was shot three times, once in the chest and twice in the leg.

He was very aggressive, he was very much in people's faces trying to provoke a reaction Aaron Waller, student doorman

Mr Waller told the court he had spent most of the evening working with a colleague at an international party upstairs in the students' union.

When the party finished they had been called downstairs because of problems security staff had experienced earlier in the evening.

Mr Waller said: "The defendant came through and started giving the security staff abuse, calling them 'white trash' and holding a medallion chain.

"He was a 6ft 2in, black, dark-skinned male, very large, very muscular, wearing blue jeans and a long-sleeved tight top.

"He was very aggressive, he was very much in people's faces trying to provoke a reaction."

Mr Waller said he ran into the student union building to escape the shooting.

He said one of the bullets had exited through his mobile phone, which was in his trouser pocket, smashing the phone to pieces.

Mr Waller said he had picked Carty out of an identity parade on 22 May last year and was sure it was the defendant who had shot him.

The attack left Mr Waller needing emergency surgery for internal injuries to his liver and kidney, and he was in hospital for three weeks.