Witness: Shooter 'told me I was a good dude and shot me in the chest' at recording studio
MASON — There was no indication of trouble before a client at Curshawn "Kaz" Terrell's recording studio in Lansing Township pulled a gun and shot Terrell and an associate on New Year's Eve, a witness testified Friday.
Shaquille Brown, 29, who survived a gunshot wound to the chest, said there was "no arguing, no disputing, no raised voices" before Anthony Anderson Jr. opened fire on him and Terrell, who died from his injuries.
"He told me I was a good dude and shot me in the chest," Brown testified in a preliminary hearing for Anderson in 55th District Court. After hearing testimony from Brown and a police sergeant, Judge Donald Allen ordered Anderson to stand trial on seven felony counts, including open murder and assault with intent to murder.
The shooting happened in the afternoon of Dec. 31 at 51 Sessions, a recording studio in a commercial building on East Michigan Avenue at Detroit Street. Terrell ran the studio and Brown was an engineer there.
Brown and Anderson had worked together several times prior, and Anderson had also met Terrell previously, according to testimony. Anderson had booked time at the studio for that afternoon, and as Brown was preparing his equipment for the session, Anderson pulled him aside to ask if the studio was "secure," Brown said.
"He said he owed some people some money, (that he had) people after him," Brown testified.
Brown said he assured Anderson the studio works with people from all walks of life and, "we don't judge you here." He and Terrell agreed not to charge Anderson for the session, he said.
No words were exchanged before Anderson shot him in the chest from a few feet away, Brown testified.
Brown said he collapsed to the floor. He heard scuffling noises and heard Terrell say, "Don't shoot, don't shoot," before Anderson shot him, Brown testified. Neither of the two shooting victims was armed, and no one other than Anderson fired rounds, he said
"I thought I was going to die," Brown said.
Terrell, 40, also known as "LaKaz Drumatik," was shot in the back, according to testimony.
He was lying across the threshold of a door leading into a parking lot when Lansing Twp. police Sgt. Sean Taylor arrived and administered CPR, Taylor testified. Paramedics loaded Terrell onto a cot and took him to Sparrow Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Taylor said.
Taylor said he learned of a second shooting victim and followed a blood trail down a stairway, where he and others used tools to force open a door to the recording studio. A bleeding Brown was found inside the studio, he said.
Anderson was on parole when the shootings happened and has numerous felony convictions dating as far back as 2011, state corrections department records indicate.
On Friday, he objected to going forward with the preliminary examination, saying he had fired his court-appointed attorney and hired his own lawyer. That attorney did not appear for Friday's hearing, and Allen ordered that the hearing be held with the Ingham County Public Defender's office representing Anderson.
Contact Ken Palmer at kpalmer@lsj.com. Follow him on Twitter @KBPalm_lsj.
This article originally appeared on Lansing State Journal: Parolee ordered to stand trial in Lansing New Year's Eve killing
