LAKE, Justice.
At trial, the State's evidence tended to show that during the early morning hours of 5 August 1993, defendant shot and killed Robert Alan Burns. Two of defendant's friends, seventeen-year-old Brian Carroll and ten-year-old Darius Phillips, witnessed the murder. During the evening of 4 August 1993, defendant was selling crack cocaine from the yard of Brian Carroll's grandmother's house. According to Phillips, two white
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