SAGINAW, MI – A man testified in a Saginaw courtroom Thursday that as he drove to work early one morning on Saginaw’s West Side, he collided with a car that had run a red light. When the car took off, the man said he pursued it, only to be fired upon by one of the car’s passengers.

Prosecutors have now charged one person who recently turned 16 with four criminal charges in connection with the hit-and-run-turned shooting. The man prosecutors believe pulled the trigger, though, remains at large.

Rayshon J. Macon is charged in Saginaw County District Court with two counts of felony firearm and single counts of assault with intent to murder and discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle.

The morning of Thursday, Jan. 10, Macon appeared for a preliminary examination before Saginaw County District Judge Terry L. Clark. The hearing began with Saginaw County Assistant Prosecutor Shellbe A. Sanborn calling Nathan Bourbina to the witness stand.

Bourbina testified that about 3:40 a.m. on Dec. 8 he was heading to work, driving his truck on State Street. When he approached the Hill Street intersection, a red Honda ran the flashing red light and the two vehicles collided, the Honda veering into a yard behind him, he said.

“They proceeded to back out of the yard and take off,” he said. “I put my truck in reverse – I wanted to get the license plate — and proceeded to follow them.”

Eventually, someone appeared in a passenger window, held a pistol sideways, and opened fire on him, he testified.

“They sat on the windowsill and pointed (the gun) right at me,” he said. “I ducked and turned my steering wheel and hopped over the curb.”

Three bullets struck his truck, but not him. He stopped following the car and went to work, where he called 911.

He said he counted at least five people in the car.

After stepping down, a series of three 15-year-old girls testified. All said they were in the Honda that had collided with the truck. The first said she was driving the car, it being her mother’s, though she had no driver’s license.

She said she did not stop after the collision because she was scared. A boy in the backseat, whom she only identified by his initials, opened fire on the pursuing truck out of the car’s rear passenger window, she said.

Another of the girls said she had heard Macon telling another male passenger to “pop him.” Asked by defense attorney Kelly D. Ellsworth if it could have been another person in the car who said it, she said it was possible.

“I know Rayshon’s voice and I know that was Rayshon,” she said.

The third girl said she couldn’t hear much due to the loud music in the car. At one point, she felt a male against her shift and she put her head down.

Judge Clark asked her what prompted her to duck.

“I was just scared,” she said.

Sanborn then asked her if she remembered telling Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. David Murchie she had heard Macon tell another male to “pop his a--.” The witness said she didn’t recall saying that.

Murchie testified he had interviewed the girl and she did tell him that.

Sanborn asked the judge to bind Macon’s case over to Circuit Court for trial. Ellsworth opposed this and asked for Clark to dismiss the case, saying only one witness testified his client in any way encouraged the shooting.

Clark ended up binding Macon’s case over to the higher court.

Ellsworth then asked the judge to reduce bond from $100,000. Clark declined.

“From what I heard today, it’s scary,” Clark said. “It’s really scary. Fifteen-, 16-year-olds in vehicles with guns shooting at cars. From what I heard here this morning, (Macon) wasn’t the shooter but he definitely encouraged the shooter to shoot.”

Authorities on Dec. 19 issued a warrant for an 18-year-old they believe to be the shooter, but he has not been arrested or arraigned as of Jan. 10.