A shooting victim has told a court a man yelled at him to get on the ground before he was shot in the leg outside a Lake Wendouree unit in October.
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"I wasn't under the effects of meth (but) filled with adrenaline and my only thought was I had to get to the hospital because I had a massive amount of blood coming out of my leg," the victim, 24, said.
He said he drove himself to the Ballarat Base Hospital, with a bullet lodged in his right thigh, after being shot outside the Gregory Street unit at 3.21am on October 1.
Ballarat's Trevor Scott, 27, has been charged over the shooting and faced a contested committal hearing at the Ballarat Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
The victim told the court via a video link he attended a drug dealer's Wendouree house on the two days before the shooting to "score drugs".
He said the drug dealer was his friend and he would often drive him around because he did not hold a driver's licence.
On the day before the shooting, the victim attended the drug dealer's house to buy two points of ice and he saw another man, who he knew, at the house
Defence barrister Barnaby Johnson put to the victim there was bad blood between him and this other man and they were enemies.
But the victim disagreed.
"I wouldn't say there was bad blood but he wasn't someone who I wanted to hang around. All I knew is he had an extensive criminal history," he said.
After midnight on the day of the shooting, the victim said he had injected methamphetamine five hours before he drove his Nissan Patrol with a female friend to meet a drug dealer on the corner of Pleasant and Lonsdale streets.
He said while his female friend was buying the drugs in a car parked behind his Nissan Patrol, another vehicle pulled up beside him on the wrong side of the road.
The victim said the driver told him his name was Trev before he allegedly accused the victim of stealing from the Wendouree drug dealer, who was the victim's friend.
Scott allegedly told the victim, "Don't make me get my gun and shoot you".
The allegation came as a shock to the victim and three hours later, he drove to the drug dealer's house and tried to talk to him through a window outside his unit.
"All my intent was to sort out any miscommunication," the victim said.
But a car pulled up the driveway and Scott allegedly walked towards the victim with a firearm.
The victim said Scott started yelling at him, pointed the gun at him, hit his face with the gun and grabbed a supermarket trolley.
"Scott yelled to get on the ground. I kneeled down on the ground at the back of a car," the victim said.
Mr Johnson asked the victim if Trevor Scott shot him, to which he replied, "Yes".
Detective Senior Constable Anthony McKay told the court he spoke to the victim at the hospital hours after the shooting.
He said he had a discussion with the victim about Scott turning up in the driveway and accusing the victim of "ripping" off the drug dealer.
Detective Senior Constable McKay said he spoke to four people at the scene of the shooting and they said they did not see or hear anything.
The hearing will continue in May when a gun shot residue expert, a man and police informant will give evidence.
Scott faces six charges including intentionally causing serious injury, placing a person in danger of death, using a firearm while being a prohibited person, possessing ammunition without holding a licence and committing an indictable offence while on bail.
He was remanded in custody until May 12.
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