A man fired a gun in a Pembroke neighbourhood then stole a bike and led police on a high-speed chase across the Island, a jury heard.Gariko Benjamin, 21, is alleged to have told officers who pursued him: “You think you’re bad ‘cos you’ve got a gun. You’re not the only one that has a gun,” while gesturing that he had one himself.The episode in question is said to have taken place on the morning of January 25 this year.Opening Mr Benjamin’s Supreme Court trial yesterday, prosecutor Garrett Byrne told the jury the defendant and an accomplice arrived in Overview Hill, Pembroke, on a black motorcycle.They stopped outside a residence belonging to the Raynor family. Brothers Jahfari and Sadune Raynor were outside the house with friends including Brian Batson. The defendant is alleged to have jumped off the back of the bike wearing a dark helmet and full-face visor so nobody could see his face, according to Mr Byrne.An eyewitness who lives nearby, Betty Maybury, reported seeing the gunman walking with his left hand close to his side, then opening fire. She could not see his face as his visor was down.Another witness, Kaori Richardson, reported that she had taken her boyfriend Mr Batson to the Raynor residence in her car. She said he was outside the house talking to his friends when she saw a bike arrive. A pillion passenger jumped off the back while the rider stopped and kept the engine running.She described the men on the bike as black males and the pillion passenger as skinny. The passenger ran towards Mr Batson and his friends.“Seconds later, I heard a pop sound. I don’t think it was loud. That’s why I gave it the benefit of the doubt and thought ‘that can’t be a gunshot’,” said Ms Richardson in her statement, read to the jury yesterday by Mr Byrne.The prosecutor explained: “Luckily, nobody was caught by a bullet, nobody was injured.”Mr Benjamin is alleged to have stolen a distinctive blue scrambler bike from the Raynor yard to make his escape while the accomplice left the scene on the first bike. They “sped off at great speed” according to the prosecutor and were spotted by various members of the public and police officers along their journey.One police officer estimated the suspect was travelling at more than 100 kilometres per hour. Police chased him, but he refused to stop.“He was doing wheelies and driving entirely dangerously,” according to Mr Byrne.At one point when Mr Benjamin was being chased through the Bob’s Valley Lane area of Sandys, he made a gesture towards unarmed officers suggesting he had a weapon, according to Pc Valerius Jean-Louis.“He put his hand in his waist area. At that point I was frightened for my safety and for my colleagues,” reported the officer in a statement read by the prosecutor.He and his colleagues retreated to a safe distance and Mr Benjamin ended up at his home on Tribe Road Number 2, Sandys.According to Mr Byrne, when police arrived at the house, Mr Benjamin “got hostile” and uttered the words about a gun which the prosecutor described as “a very clear and unpleasant threat”.Armed police officer Oswin Pereira told the jury Mr Benjamin was “irate” as he made the alleged threat, and tapped his right hip as he said it, indicating he had a weapon.“Being a firearms officer, and given the nature of the incident we were attending, I felt threatened,” Pc Pereira told the jury.He denied the suggestion of defence lawyer Charles Richardson that no such threat was uttered.Mr Benjamin was arrested after that. According to Mr Byrne, gunshot residue was found by a forensic expert on his cell phone and the right handlebar of a scrambler bike found in a locked room at his home.“That evidence, we say, supports the prosecution’s case that it was this defendant who discharged the weapon at Overview Hill,” he said.Mr Benjamin is accused of possessing and unlawfully discharging a firearm and using threatening behaviour towards police. He is further charged with aggravated vehicle taking in relation to the scrambler bike, and riding it dangerously.Mr Benjamin denies all the charges, and the case continues.