PROVIDENCE — Last spring, 29-year-old Alonzo P. Shelton was found guilty of murder, conspiracy to murder and assault with intent to murder in the July 27, 2006, shooting in Pawtucket that left one woman dead and another woman wounded.

Yesterday, it was Shelton’s nephew’s turn to stand trial.

Barry Offley, who was 19 when 24-year-old Jessica Imran was killed and 28-year-old Julie Lang was injured, is being tried separately because his case was severed from Shelton’s.

In his opening statement, Offley’s defense lawyer, Terence Livingston, said Offley went with Shelton to Imran’s apartment at 88 Lawn Ave. because he was hoping to “hook up,” or have sex, with the women.

He depicted Offley as an impressionable young man who, despite being in awe of his uncle, never fired a single shot.

But Lang offered a different account of what happened that night, one that implicated Offley in the murder of Imran.

Taking the witness stand, she described how Shelton and Offley forced their way into Imran’s apartment about 4 a.m. and how the two men took turns with the gun.

“Jessica had heard me telling them to leave. She also said, ‘You have to go. This is my house. She doesn’t want you here,’” Lang testified.

“What was the next thing that happened?” Assistant Attorney General Stacey P. Veroni asked Lang.

“The next thing that happened was I heard a gunshot and Jessica saying, ‘You almost shot me!’” Lang testified.

Her voice started to break.

“I looked toward Barry and Jessica,” Lang said, weeping.

She took out a handkerchief.

“What, if anything did you notice about Barry?” asked Veroni

“That he was holding a gun pointed at Jessica,” Lang answered. “I saw Barry shoot Jessica, and I saw Jessica fall to the floor.”

Imran, a professional escort who ran personal ads in the newspaper, was killed to eliminate her as a possible witness, according to prosecutors.

Lang was the intended victim, the prosecutors contend, because she was threatening to say that the crack cocaine found in her pocketbook when she and Shelton were stopped in her car by police in Woonsocket six months before the shooting belonged to him.

“Barry pointed the gun at me, and he shot at me, and it missed,” Lang said, without so much as a glance at Offley.

“I couldn’t move. I couldn’t say anything,” she testified. “He tried to shoot at me again but the bullets came out of the top of the gun.”

At that point, Lang testified, Shelton took the gun from Offley and reloaded it, picking up the unspent rounds of ammunition that had fallen on the floor.

“And Alonzo shot me. I fell to the floor,” she said. “I heard them say — and I’m not sure who said it — ‘we’ve got to leave.’ ”

Despite being shot four times, Lang managed to grab Imran’s cell phone and dial 911.

A recording of the 911 call was played yesterday for the jury.

“I just got shot and my friend just got shot,” Lang tells the operator.

“Where are you?” the operator asks.

“I’m on Lawn Avenue.”

“In what city?”

“In Pawtucket. Please, I don’t know the address.”

The 911 operator routes the call to Pawtucket, setting off a frantic search for the shooting victims.

Gasping and choking, Lang tells the Pawtucket police dispatcher she’s on Lawn Avenue, but the dispatcher mishears it as Warren Avenue and sends police there by mistake.

It is only after the 911 operator determines that the cell phone Lang is using is GPS-enabled that the police are able to pinpoint the address.

Police Officer Wallace H. Martin said that, when he pulled up in front of 88 Lawn Ave., Lang staggered out of the apartment house, bleeding from what appeared to be two bullet wounds.

“I asked her what had happened, and she said she had been shot,” Martin testified.

“Next, I asked her who had shot her, and she gave me the name of Alonzo Shelton,” Martin said.

Shelton was sentenced by Judge Robert D. Krause last summer to 72 years in prison. Offley is being tried before Krause in Superior Court.

The trial is expected to resume this morning with Lang returning to the stand.

jcastell@projo.com