A man who used to shoot at Dawson City residents ended up being shot dead himself, Yukon Supreme Court heard Tuesday.

Robert Truswell, 53, was shot twice and bled to death in the Dawson-area gold fields on Aug. 28, 2003.

George Kieran Daunt, 50, is now on trial for second-degree murder.

On Tuesday morning, the court heard Truswell shot at a 14-year-old boy on a motorcycle. Andrew Sigurdson, now 21, had just finished building the bike with his father, Chuck.

The Sigurdsons were good friends with Daunt, and Andrew wanted to show his bike to Daunt.

To get to Daunt's property, Andrew had to ride his bike past Truswell's property, even though his father told him never to go near there.

Chuck and his wife, Camelia, believed Truswell was a dangerous man. They had warned their son when he was five years old to stay as far away from the man as possible.

When Andrew got to Daunt's property, he found the man wasn't home, so he started to go back home. That's when Truswell came up behind Andrew in his truck and shot out Andrew's back tire, court heard.

'I was freaked out,' the young man testified about the incident.

Truswell took another shot at the boy, this time taking out the headlight.

The boy was able to escape to a nearby friend's house.

He and his friend fixed up the bike so his parents wouldn't find out he'd travelled past Truswell's residence. Andrew feared his parents would take his bike away for going somewhere he wasn't supposed to be.

His mother, who listened to her son testify Tuesday morning, broke into tears while listening to how her son had feared for his life.

While fixing the bike, his friend had pointed out that Andrew was bleeding from the arm.

'I guess I was in shock,' Andrew said about why he didn't feel the injury until 20 minutes later.

Last week, the court heard that Truswell had tried to run another young boy off his bike because he believed that boy had stolen from him.

Andrew did nothing to Truswell to provoke the attack. The court heard evidence that suggested Truswell would shoot at anyone who was on a motorbike.

The Sigurdsons' son also recalled another incident where he and a friend had been riding their motorbikes through the gold fields when Truswell started chasing them in his truck.

Truswell tried to hit the one boy by opening his door. The door missed the boy by three or four feet.

The now-deceased Truswell threatened to kill three boys outside the Dawson courthouse because they'd stolen a chain saw and an herbal book from him, court was told.

Those three boys were at the courthouse facing charges related to the thefts.

Andrew was shot at a second time a few years later after the first incident while travelling in his Jeep. At that time, he did not get a good look at his shooter so does not know if it was Truswell.

Andrew wasn't the only person who was shot at by Truswell.

James David Heath, a Dawson carpenter, testified he was going to hunt a black bear in the gold fields when Truswell shot at him.

Heath was sitting on the open tailgate of his truck when Truswell fired at him. The carpenter heard a whistle above his head.

'I assumed it was a bullet,' Heath told the courtroom. 'I thought someone was taking target practice and didn't know I was there.'

But then Truswell came out of the bushes and told Heath to get the 'f- off' his property.

Heath had seen Truswell carrying a .22-calibre rifle.

He didn't know Truswell at the time but he obtained a description of the man who the RCMP believed to be was Truswell.

Later, Heath was able to confirm the identity for himself when Truswell, a few years later, approached Heath for work.

Heath was the foreman involved in the construction of Dawson's new RCMP detachment. The carpenter told Truswell they were not seeking help at the time.

Dick Van Nostrand, the owner of Dawson's Downtown Hotel, also had to turn Truswell away when the man showed up asking for work, court was told.

After he purchased the hotel, Van Nostrand was going to do some renovations.

Truswell showed up in the lobby one day with a big canvas bag of tools, ready to go to work that afternoon.

'I told him there was no job. I was doing the job myself,' Van Nostrand testified.

'He wasn't very impressed with the fact.'

A few years later, Van Nostrand noticed that Truswell's camper was parked outside his hotel for a few days.

Van Nostrand had to have strong words with Truswell to get the man to leave.

Wayne Hawkes, a Dawson miner and truck driver, testified he had ran into Truswell a week before he was fatally shot.

Truswell told Hawkes he was going to kill Daunt because Daunt was trying to run Truswell off his claim, court heard.

Hawkes told Truswell he should try to get along with Daunt. The trucker then went and told Daunt of the death threat.

'He said I was not the first one to say that,' said Hawkes.

Crown prosecutor Mike Cozens pointed out that Truswell had once threatened to kill another man but did not go through with that threat.

Justice of the peace John Tyrrell said he was presiding over a Dawson court one day when Truswell had come in a little early before court started.

Truswell laid out some mining papers across the floor of the courtroom. He tried to tell Tyrrell that Daunt had had the boundaries of Truswell's land claims fraudulently changed.

Truswell said Daunt was able to do this because of a sexual relationship Daunt was having with the mining recorder, Tyrell testified Tuesday.

Tyrrell informed Truswell he couldn't do anything for him, and told him to leave because court was about to begin.

Later, Truswell went to Tyrrell's residence and asked the man to keep a package containing his mining documents.

Truswell told Tyrrell he was scared of Daunt because Daunt had threatened him. He also told Tyrrell that Daunt had stolen his father's will, court heard.

Tyrrell told Truswell to go to the RCMP, but took Truswell's papers for safekeeping.

The justice of the peace forgot about the papers until the shooting. It was after that incident when Tyrrell turned the documents over to police.

The trial continued today before Justice Ron Veale and a jury.