Jury Hears Conflicting Stories In '10 Old City Shooting

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A 24-year-old man has described being shot near the corner of 4th and Market in Old City in January of last year. But the jury has already heard two very different accounts of what led to the early morning shooting.

Edward DiDonato has told the jury 29-year-old defendant Gerald Ung became enraged without provocation, leading to a nearly block long verbal battle between Ung and one of DiDonato's friends. But as they neared 4th and Market, DiDonato says Ung pulled out a gun.

DiDonato approached and was shot six times, nearly killed, and he remembers Ung asking, "Why did you make me do that? Why did you come at me?"

And DiDonato, on the ground says he responded, "I didn't, man. I didn't do anything." But defense attorney Jack McMahon has told the jury DiDonato's friend was the aggressor and Ung fired only after he was approached, threatened three times and was being knocked to the ground. The attorney says he had no other options.

Reported by Tony Hanson, KYW Newsradio