Another friend of murder suspect Yaphet Davis provided damaging details Wednesday on the circumstances surrounding the Oct. 9, 1999, shooting of Eddie Hall near University Plaza.

Davis, of Robbins, is charged with first-degree murder in Hall’s death. Wednesday was the third day of his trial.

Much of the afternoon session revolved around testimony from Robert Heard, a friend of Davis who said the shooting occurred as Hall was running away from Davis toward an apartment complex at 821 Crane Drive.

Heard, of Carpentersville, recalled a complicated series of events leading to the confrontation, including a fight that morning at the Crane Drive apartment, where three men, including Hall, “jumped” Davis and his friends, Heard said.

Heard testified that Davis was grabbed by the throat, dragged, kicked and punched after being accused of damaging the windshield of Hall’s car.

After the scuffle, Hall and his friends “made it clear” that Davis, Heard and friend Damien Hausler could not leave the apartment until they came up with $400 to pay for the windshield, Heard said.

Davis was allowed to use a speakerphone to call for money, according to Heard’s testimony. When that money was delivered, there was not enough, he said. Davis then told Hall and others, “I’m not going to pay (expletive),” which angered Hall, Heard said.

Hall never pulled a knife out of his back pocket, he testified.

Davis then told friend Damien Abrams, who brought the money, to “pop that thing,” resulting in Abrams handing a revolver to Davis, Heard said.

Heard’s testimony came on the heels of a deal between his lawyers and the state’s attorney’s office. In exchange for testimony, prosecutors agreed to drop mob action charges against Heard stemming from an arrest the night before Hall’s death.

Morning developments included Abrams’ girlfriend, Danielle Penn, 21, of Chicago testifying that she drove Davis, Heard and Hausler to the Holiday Inn Express in Sycamore on the night of the shooting.

Both assistant state’s attorney Clint Hull and Davis’ defense attorney, Glenn Jazwiec, quizzed Penn about events after the shooting. Penn said she woke up Oct. 9 when the phone rang outside her room. She woke up again when Abrams returned to bed and told her that if anyone called, to tell them he was asleep.

Penn said she was awakened a third time by the phone, which she answered, recognizing the voice as Davis’.

“He asked to speak to Damien,” Penn said. “I said he was asleep. Yaphet asked me to wake him up.”

Penn said Abrams walked out of the room with the phone, and the fourth time she woke up, it was to Abrams yelling her name. When she went downstairs, the entertainment center glass was broken and Abrams was on his knees, she told Hull. Abrams asked her to pick up Davis at 833 Kimberly Drive, she said.

Penn drove alone to the apartment and was about to get out of the car when she saw Davis and two friends coming out of the building “walking in a hurry,” she testified.

Davis sat in back of the two-door green Plymouth Duster. The other two men were Heard and Hausler, Penn said.

“I asked, ‘Where are we going?’ and he said he couldn’t go to his girlfriend’s,” Penn said. “He asked me to take him to Elgin.”

When Penn said she couldn’t, Davis asked her to take them to a hotel, she testified.

As she looked in the review mirror, Penn saw Davis put his jacket in the hatch-back trunk of her car, she said. She identified the jacket in court Thursday, telling Hull that Davis said he would be recognized with his jacket.

Penn testified that Davis said in the car, “Hell yeah, hell yeah, we got them (expletive). If they would’ve had a gun, they would’ve done the same thing to us.”

Hull asked how Davis made the statement and Penn answered that Davis spoke in an “ecstatic” manner.

DeKalb police Sgt. Dan Gerace, a supervising detective, also testified Thursday, detailing the hunt for Davis after the shooting. Locations in DeKalb, Sycamore, Elgin, Rockford and Hampshire were searched. Davis was apprehended in Arkansas nearly a month later.

The trial resumes at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Testimony is expected to end Wednesday, when the jury will begin deliberations. First-degree murder carries a sentence of 20 years to life in prison.