On the fourth day of Raul "Lito" Valle's murder trial, the jury heard from the three young men who survived after being stabbed at a house party in Shelton just over three years ago.

Valle is accused of attacking four teenagers with a knife that night.

One of them died: 17-year-old Jimmy McGrath, who was a standout athlete at Fairfield Prep.

Faison Teele, who was stabbed in the upper arm that night, returned to stand Tuesday, where he described May 14, 2022, as the worst day of his life.

“Never in a million years did I think being at one my best friend's house, I would get stabbed, and three others of my friends would get stabbed or Jimmy McGrath would die,” Teele told the jury.

He added that he thinks about what happened every day.

Teele has a permanent reminder with a scar on his upper arm, but it's McGrath's death that haunts him.

“Why him? Like, it sounds dark, but I’ll be like, ‘It should've been me instead of Jimmy because you don't see kids on this earth like that—just a kid who smiled every single time you see him. You don't see that,” Teele shared.

Valle, who's charged with murder and three counts of assault, was 16 at the time and attended St. Joseph High School in Trumbull. The prosecution alleges the deadly brawl on Laurel Glen Drive was the result of a fight that began earlier that night at a different house party on Lazy Brooke Road. Valle and two of his school friends allegedly got into it with a couple of Shelton High School teens, then later turned up at the other party. Witnesses testified there were about 30 people there, nearly all of them Shelton High students or graduates.

Teele testified he got involved in the fight briefly and didn’t initially realize he’d been stabbed because of the adrenaline.

“Someone came up to me with a flashlight, and they pointed towards my arm and when they pointed, there's like a piece of fat sticking out,” Teele recalled, “and then blood just like all over the side of my body.”

The prosecution showed the jury pictures of Teele’s wounded upper arm, which needed five stitches. Teele said he suffered slight nerve damage for about a year with his arm suddenly going numb, something that occasionally still happens.

On cross examination, Valle’s attorney, Kevin Smith, suggested Valle and his friend were under attack that night and highly outnumbered. Smith has suggested self defense during his questioning of the state's witnesses.

"Those 20 to 30 people started to encircle Mr. DaSilva and Mr. Valle, right?” Smith asked.

Teele disputed that, testifying that while there were a lot of people outside, only a handful were involved in the actual violence while the rest just watched.

Smith also brought up the underage drinking at the party, and he grilled Teele about discrepancies in his initial statements to police and his testimony in court.

“You told officers, which you haven't told us here, ‘My friends are crazy. They’re rowdy,’ right?" Smith asked, reading from a police report.

“I don’t recall saying that,” Teele responded.

“You told us here you participated in this. You didn't tell the officers you participated when you spoke to them," Smith stated.

“I don't recall,” Teele replied.

Tommy Connery, another one of the teens stabbed that night, also took the stand for the prosecution on Tuesday. Connery told the jury the brawl began because it looked like Valle was about to punch someone, so one of the Shelton High teens hit Valle first.

“You say you recall seeing the defendant make a move?” asked Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Marc Durso.

"Yes, his body jolted like he was trying to do something,” Connery said, demonstrating for the jury.

Connery testified that he ended up fighting with Valle after he saw another teen, whom he thought was his younger brother, face to face with Valle, so Connery pushed the other teen out of the way. Connery said he thought Valle had just punched him in his left leg until he felt it was wet.

“I realized my leg from my quad all the way down to my ankle was covered in blood. There was no skin to see, and my shoes were covered in blood,” Connery recalled.

He also remembered looking up from the ground and seeing McGrath standing by himself.

“I was like, ‘Jimmy, are you OK?’ And there was no response, but he slowly pulled up his shirt to see that he had blood coming out. And as I look at that, I was like, ‘Are you OK? Are you OK?’ And there was no response, and he collapsed,” Connery said.

McGrath’s mother quietly cried in the courtroom, then got up and left after Connery described her son’s state.

Durso showed the jury pictures of Connery’s wounds to his left leg as Connery described his recovery. He said he was in a wheelchair for seven to 10 days, then needed crutches for weeks. Connery also told the jury he was still bleeding a month later, and his lower left quad is now “deformed.”

Dr. Roselle Crombie, an emergency room surgeon who worked on Connery at Bridgeport Hospital, took the stand next and said his injuries could’ve been devastating if they hadn’t been treated right away.

Crombie also was there when McGrath was brought in and detailed the attempts to save his life. Crombie also said that McGrath’s stab wound would’ve been fatal no matter what—unless it happened in the hospital where doctors could’ve opened his chest immediately.

The prosecution’s final witness Tuesday was Ryan Heinz, the third stabbing victim who survived.

Heinz, who was 16 at the time, was part of the initial fight on Lazy Brook Road, which the jury first heard about from another witness last week. Heinz explained he and another friend from Shelton High School had been invited to the party by the host but were confronted as soon as they arrived by Valle and two of his friends from St. Joe’s who grabbed the beers Heinz had brought.

Heinz said he was punched in the back of his head multiple times and got a bloody lip, then left with his friend. The two of them later ended up at the Laurel Glen Drive party.

During the brawl there, Heinz testified he felt a sharp pain in his side but didn’t realize he’d been stabbed until a friend pointed out all the blood on his clothes.

Heiz said the pain and bleeding got worse and he thought he was going to die. He returns to the stand Wednesday morning for the start of trial’s fifth day.

Valle previously turned down a deal that called for him to serve 40 years in prison and opted to take his chances at trial.

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