The father of a teenage boy shot in a Sydney street has screamed obscenities at his son's alleged attacker in court.
Bilal Hamze, 27, has pleaded not guilty to seven charges including the attempted murder of the then 15-year-old boy and his father in Auburn, in Sydney's west, on August 28, 2012.
The crown alleges Hamze was acting out of revenge because the boy had stabbed one of his younger relatives at their high school in 2011.
The teen was convicted and spent time in juvenile detention.
The boy's father told Hamze's judge-alone trial on Wednesday that he and his son "never had no beef" with Hamze and his family before the stabbing.
But when, days after his son was released from detention, the teen came home and told him he'd been bashed at Auburn Railway Station by three local boys who hung around Hamze, he got angry.
Father and son then took a baseball bat each and drove to a nearby block of units where Hamze lives.
They parked in the front driveway where they confronted about 20 men, the man said, including one of the youths who had attacked the teen earlier that afternoon.
"Obviously I went there to bash people," the father told the court.
The man became increasingly agitated in the witness box as he tried to recount his son's shooting, cracking his neck and repeatedly saying he'd become "brain dead" under the pressure of testifying.
He said he heard swearing and screaming followed by a "big bang" that made him "s*** myself".
"Because some f***in' dog, you f***in' dog," he then screamed at Hamze, who sat expressionless in the dock.
The outburst prompted Judge Chris Craigie to halt proceedings and order the witness to behave himself.
Earlier on Wednesday, his teenage son told the court he felt "a lot of adrenaline" when Hamze pointed a large black pistol at him in the driveway of the unit block and shouted, "shoot him" and "kill him".
"I was just very hyped up ... then I seen the gun, I felt a bit nervous, scared."
The boy said Hamze then pointed the gun at his father, who told his son to get back in the car.
But the boy stumbled.
"I got shot. My shirt was wet, and then my stomach started cramping," the teen told the court.
The boy quickly got into the back seat of the car and his father drove him to hospital.
He remembers waking up a few days later.
Hamze's defence barrister Greg James QC questioned the teenager's ability to accurately identify his client as the wielder of the gun.
The boy said "I can't remember" over and over as Mr James asked whether he could distinguish anything at all about the appearance of any of the other men or what they were wearing.
The trial continues.
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