UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - Omar Thompson is accused of shooting two people at an Oneida Street home in Utica on Saturday. One died, and the survivor cried on the witness stand Friday as she identified Thompson as the man who pulled the trigger.

Traumatized shooting survivor Jeanie O'Brien cried on the witness stand as she identified Thompson as the man who shot her in the shoulder, and shot and killed her friend, Mark Dukett, at her Oneida Street apartment on Saturday.

O'Brien said the shooting followed a morning spent trying to obtain some crack for Dukett. She said Thompson pulled a gun, demanding the money she and Dukett were going to use to buy drugs from him.

She said the two men struggled, and that Thompson shot Dukett, who then fell on her. O'Brien says Thompson tripped over Dukett's body as he shot at her.

She believes he otherwise would have shot her in the head, killing her.

The prosecutor is satisfied that O'Brien adequately identified defendant Thompson as the man who shot her and her friend.

"From the testimony, it seems clear that she had multiple extended opportunities to see the defendant at various times throughout this event so she's very certain of her identification," said Michael Coluzza, first assistant district attorney.

But the defense attorney isn't so sure and thinks that, at trial, time could be on his side.

A police officer on the stand today said he came upon a bleeding, hysterical Jeanie O'Brien on the porch of 1527 Oneida Street at 1:15 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

Thompson's cousin says she saw him at her mother's house between 1:20 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.

"But I have people that are going to able to say I was with him at different points during that period of time at places that are far removed from where the crimes took place," said Mark Curley, defense attorney.

The judge found there was enough evidence to hold the case over to a grand jury for possible indictment, or formal charge - which is what legally binds a defendant to stand trial for a crime.

The prosecution has 45 days to get the case in front of a grand jury.