“What did you state to him?” Bennett asked.

“I said ‘Thank God you didn’t hit him,’” Jiggetts said.

“What did Copney say back to you?”

“‘I’m telling you I did,’” Jiggetts recalled Copney saying. “‘I don’t miss.’”

Jiggetts was originally charged with first degree murder but pled guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter. He was promised a shorter sentence if he complied with the investigation and testified in Copney’s trial.

After Jiggetts was sworn in yesterday, a minor outburst in the court audience broke out between Jiggetts’ significant other and Copney’s mother. The jury was briefly removed from the court while Associate Justice John T. Lu settled the dispute.

Jiggetts will continue his testimony today.

—Staff writer Xi Yu can be reached at xyu@college.harvard.edu.