CHRISTIANSBURG -- A long-standing feud between a former Virginia Tech fraternity member and a former Hokies football player led to a November shooting at Blacksburg's Chasewood Downs apartment complex, witnesses in the trial of Anthony Jobair Lucas testified Wednesday.

Lucas, a former Tech student and Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity member now living in Washington, D.C., is accused of one felony count of shooting into the apartment of Tech cornerback Victor "Macho" Harris early on the morning of Nov. 11.

Former Hokie wide receiver Justin Harper was the alleged target of the shooting, which occurred about 3:30 a.m. after a Tech home game against Florida State University, prosecution witness Augustus Pajibo Peal testified.

Late Wednesday, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Ray Grubbs denied defense attorney Brad McConnell's motion to strike the case against Lucas. McConnell argued that Peal has given contradictory statements and falsely accused Lucas in a bid for leniency on his own pending felony charges.

Testimony in Lucas' case will resume this morning. If convicted, Lucas could face up to 10 years in prison and up to a $100,000 fine.

Peal implicated Lucas on Wednesday, saying his former fraternity brother wanted revenge on Harper.

Blacksburg Police Detective Scott Craig testified that Lucas reported being injured in two fights with Harper, one in 2005 and another at Oge-Chi's nightclub on Draper Road just before the shooting occurred.

Peal testified that Lucas borrowed Peal's 9 mm handgun after the November altercation and asked for a ride to Harris' apartment. Peal's former roommate Seth Lederman is alleged to have accompanied Peal and Lucas that morning and to have fired rounds from a 12-gauge shotgun into Harris' apartment.

On arriving at the scene, police found bullet holes inside and outside the apartment. Harris described running from room to room to escape the shooting.

"I was scared for my life," he said.

No one was injured and Lederman has not been charged in the case.

Police later confiscated Lederman's shotgun, but Peal's handgun is missing. Ballistics tests linked 9 mm bullet casings from the Chasewood parking lot to a similar spent casing police found in a drawer in Peal's apartment, state forensic firearms expert David Gibbs testified.

Peal -- a convicted felon who testified in shackles Wednesday -- is awaiting trial on charges of illegal possession of a handgun and of firing into an occupied building in connection with the Chasewood Downs shooting. He and Lederman have also been charged in a string of burglaries in Roanoke and Montgomery counties.

"He's not an angel," Commonwealth's Attorney Nathan Walker said in describing Peal to jurors. "But he was there."