Accused killer Ronniko Burchall admitted killing Shane Minors, witness Andrew Laws told Supreme Court yesterday.However Mr Laws admitted that he was addicted to drugs and living in a tent at the time of the alleged confession.While Jerome Lynch QC, representing Mr Burchall, suggested that a desire to get a reward and leave the Island motivated Mr Laws’ statement, Mr Laws maintained he was fed up with the rising level of gang violence in Bermuda.Mr Minors, 30, was fatally shot outside his lower level apartment on December 17, 2009.Mr Burchall, 22, and his half brother, Leroy Symons, 21, have both been charged with the murder. Mr Burchall alone faces an additional charge of using a firearm to commit an offence.Both men deny all charges. In Supreme Court yesterday, Mr Laws said he had spoken with Mr Burchall in May of 2010 on Parsons Road.“He was walking back from his house. I was walking easterly and he was walking westerly and we bumped up. I asked him ‘Is everything cool?,’ and he just came up and said ‘My brother put the police on me, you know.’“His brother had told police which way he had gotten there, which way he could leave. I asked him, ‘Did you do it?’ and he told me, ‘Yeah.’ I was shocked. I was totally shocked.”Under cross examination, Mr Laws said that while he was using heroin during the period that the conversation took place, it was not enough to alter his mindset, only enough to combat back pain. “They were not powerful enough,” Mr Laws said. “It wasn’t affecting my mind. It didn’t play no games on my mind. I was a functional addict.”Mr Lynch noted Mr Laws had previously testified in the murder trial of Antonio Myers, and had told police during interviews in connection with that matter he “didn’t want to live in the trees” and that “money talks”.He accused Mr Laws of lying in an attempt to earn a reward, suggesting the conversation between Mr Laws and Mr Burchall never took place, but Mr Laws responded: “Untrue.”He admitted the reward money was a factor in his decision to give evidence, but it was not the only one, citing the rise in gang violence. Asked if he intended to put in for a reward, he told Mr Lynch: “Yeah. Is that what you want to hear?”Mr Lynch also questioned Mr Laws’ connection with his son Jahkeil Samuels, reportedly a high-ranking member of Parkside, and his own past involvement in gangs. Mr Laws told the court: “I have done my ignorance. I was born and raised on 42nd Street. At that time it wasn’t a gang. We were Rasta men. It was about peace and love. We smoked and sold weed. There wasn’t any violence.”The jury also heard conversations between Mr Symons and Mr Burchall, secretly recorded while the men were in custody. In the tapes, recorded on February 2, 2010, the men discussed their police interviews. During the conversation, the men both claim their innocence, while Mr Burchall expressed concerns that Mr Symons had spoken to police, something Mr Symons denied.On Tuesday, the court were shown footage of Mr Symons’ police interview, during which he said his half brother had asked for directions to the victim’s house the night of the shooting and showed him a gun. He also alleged that the next day, Mr Burchall admitted the shooting.