The seventh day of Raul “Lito” Valle’s murder trial ended Friday with emotional testimony from a witness who said Valle went right for Jimmy McGrath during a brawl at a Shelton house party, despite McGrath not being part of the fight.

“The defendant was near Jimmy, and he was lunging towards him,” Taylor Capela said making an upward motion as she recounted the night of May 14, 2022.

“What was Jimmy doing at that point?” asked Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Tatiana Messina.

“He kind of just like backed—he was backing up and like, his hands kind of were up. And he just like is walking backwards a little bit,” Capela told the jury.

Capela told the jury she then saw another friend bleeding on the ground, before turning back to McGrath.

“He kind of just stood there for a second and just like falls down, down to the ground. You can see he had those white shorts on. You could see them all covered in blood,” Capela, who was 17 at the time, recalled through tears.

Capela stated she didn’t see the knife but that Valle had his hand balled up in a fist, and you could tell something was in it. She also explained to the jury how the incident has traumatized her

“It just replays in my head. And it's just hard to know that he wasn't even doing anything, and this happened,” Capela said, as she got more emotional.

Capela will be back on the stand Monday when Valle’s trial continues. Valle was 16 at the time but had his case transferred to adult court. He's charged with murder and three counts of assault, accused of stabbing three Shelton High School teens along with McGrath, who was a standout athlete at Fairfield Prep. The 17-year-old junior was the only one who didn’t survive. Faison Teele, Tommy Connery and Ryan Heinz testified earlier in the week about how they’ve recovered physically but not mentally.

Court began Friday with Tyler Dasilva, now 20, a friend of Valle who was with him that night and part of the fight. Dasilva, who went to St. Joseph High School with Valle, took the stand against him in exchange for immunity in the case. The jury heard from another former classmate of Valle on Thursday who also got an immunity agreement from the prosecution.

Dasilva recalled the last time he spoke to Valle—a brief call once they’d both returned home after the fight.

“I basically confronted him and said, ‘Yo, did you stab those kids?’” Dasilva stated.

“And what was the response?” asked Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Marc Durso.

"I [expletive] up, bro. I’m sorry,” Dasilva answered.

Dasilva began his testimony by taking the jury through the events of that night that ultimately led to McGrath’s death, beginning with a confrontation at an earlier party on Lazy Brook Road.

Dasilva testified he, Valle and Snyder got into it with two Shelton High students and jumped one of them. That led to text messages between teens from the two different high schools and a challenge to fight again, now at Laurel Glen Drive.

“We were saying, ‘Yeah, let's go [expletive] these kids up. We already [expletive] them up once,’ kind of laughing about it,” Dasilva admitted.

But when the group of St. Joe’s kids pulled up to the house in Snyder’s SUV, they quickly saw they were outnumbered. Dasilva estimated 35-40 people were there. He described them surrounding the SUV and damaging it.

Dasilva said Snyder took off down the road and everyone got out to inspect the dents and cracked windshield. Dasilva testified Valle was angrier than anyone else.

“His demeanor was more, ‘[Expletive] these kids. Are you really going to let them do you like this?’” Dasilva recalled. “I heard the defendant say, ‘Jack, give me your knife.’”

Dasilva told the jury he decided to go back to the party alone because he knew the host and wanted to talk to him about the damage to the SUV. Valle came too, which Dasilva said he wasn’t expecting.

“With regards to going back there and the defendant getting out, did you think it was going to end well?” asked Durso.

“No,” answered Dasilva.

“Why?” Durso continued

“He was upset. He was angry. He was showing it way more. I feel like he wasn’t looking for anything peaceful,” Dasilva said.

When the two returned to the front yard, Dasilva said it tensions only escalated with people screaming. Then Valle got punched and the brawl broke out, according to Dasilva.

On cross examination, Valle’s attorney, Kevin Smith, pointed out that Dasilva’s direct testimony said he never saw Snyder give Valle the knife.

“I did not,” Dasilva agreed.

“And you didn't see the knife anytime thereafter?” Smith asked.

“I did not,” Dasilva answered.

“You didn’t see Mr. Valle do anything with the knife at any time. Is that fair to say?” Smith continued.

“Correct,” Dasilva replied.

Smith also went after the reason behind Dasilva's testimony against his client—to escape prosecution himself.

“You don't want to spend forever in jail do you?” Smith questioned.

“Yeah,” Dasilva said.

“You want immunity, right?” Smith asked.

“Right,” replied Dasilva.

“Without it, you're not telling us anything, right?” Smith went on.

“Correct,” Dasilva responded.

The prosecution's second witness of the day was Mackenzie Trafecante, Valle's former girlfriend, who took the stand visibly upset.

“Mackenzie, I'm going to direct your attention to May 14, 2022. Do you remember that day?” Messina asked her.

"That was an awful day,” Trafecante said pausing to take a deep breath as she got emotional. “One of my good friend’s younger brothers died.”

Trafecante also told the jury this was the first time she'd seen Valle since that night. Her testimony included text messages between them shortly after the stabbing where he denied everything and said he was leaving for Florida.

Trafecante also recalled their final phone call.

“He said, ‘I wasn't there. I didn't do anything. What are you talking about?’” Trafecante recounted.

She testified it wasn't until the next day that she learned McGrath didn't make it.

“That was the worst news, the worst night of my life,” Trafecante said tearing up over the memory. “I fell to the floor. My entire family fell to the floor.”

Friday marked the first full week in the trial, which began Tuesday, June 17, but was only in session two days that week.

Valle previously turned down a deal for 40 years in prison and instead opted to go to trial.