The Kent man accused of murdering Alajawan Brown of Skyway two years ago took the stand Monday, trying to explain the inconsistencies in his story about where he was when the 12-year-old was shot and killed.

Curtis John Walker, 36, is charged with first-degree murder in Alajawan’s death on April 29, 2010. The young boy had just gotten off the bus at South 129th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way S., when he was shot in the back.

He died in the parking lot of the 7-11 store, just a few minutes after a gang-related shooting at a nearby apartment complex. Walker had driven a friend, Johnathan Jackson, to the complex, where a confrontation and gunfire erupted.

Jackson was shot, but he survived his wounds.

A third man, Rodrigues Rabun, also rode with Walker to the apartment complex from Walker’s apartment in Kent. Walker’s defense team maintains its Rabun who actually fired the shot that killed Alajawan.

Walker is a member of the Bloods gang. The Cedar Village apartment complex, as well as the 7-11 store, is known to be in Crips territory, a Bloods rival, according to court testimony.

Walker left the complex in a maroon Cadillac driven by his wife Shaleese, testifying that he feared for their lives.

Walker began his testimony in mid-morning. On cross examination, senior deputy prosecuting attorney Kristin Richardson hammered away at the story he told investigators nine times – that he had switched to a car driven by Rabun on the highway at 68th Avenue South, several blocks west of the 7-11.

In was an effort to distance himself from the scene of the shooting, Richardson told Walker.

Two witnesses testified that they saw him fire two shots at the store, Richardson reminded him. And Walker earlier in his testimony had said that he was willing to say that he had switched cars closer to 7-11. He also testified that he wasn’t lying to the jury.

Richard also pointed to other inconsistencies, including whether a 22-caliber gun he or his wife kept in their cars actually fired. He testified that it doesn’t, but an expert witness had testified it was operational.

Walker will take the stand again on Tuesday morning. Prosecutors also are expected to call some rebuttal witnesses to the stand.

Closing arguments in the three-week trial are scheduled for Wednesday.