Alayna Albrecht-Payton, Daunte Wright’s girlfriend and passenger in his car at the moment he was allegedly shot and killed by former Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter, took the witness stand on Thursday (December 9) during Potter’s trial and told jurors about the April shooting.

According to USA Today, the 20-year-old woman said, with her voice shaking and periodic crying outbursts, that after Wright was shot she drove the car down the street and crashed into another car and then into a fence.

"I tried to scream his name," Albrecht-Payton recalled. "'Daunte, please say something, please. Just talk to me.' I know he tried. I know he wanted to because I replay that image in my head daily."

Prosecutors say Potter, who allegedly shot Wright while yelling “Taser” during a traffic stop-turned-arrest in the Minneapolis suburb, was “reckless,” while defense attorneys claimed she made a “mistake.”

​​Albrecht-Payton noted that she had known Wright for "two or three weeks" and described their relationship as "the beginning of a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship."

A prosecutor asked Albrecht-Payton about what happened when police pulled the car over. Police bodycam and dashcam videos show that Wright initially got out of the car but then pulled away from officers attempting to arrest him and got back in the driver's seat. Albrecht-Payton said she does not remember "the scuffling."

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After getting out of the car initially during the traffic stop and then going back to sit in the passenger seat of Wright’s vehicle, Albrecht-Payton recalled hearing a sound like a "boom, the bang of the gun."

"Then I remember just looking up and seeing like another car coming directly toward us," she said.

Albrecht-Payton claimed she attempted to help Wright after the crash. "I just remember trying to just get him up," she said. "I was the only one out of everybody there who was trying to help him. I was trying to push on his chest and call his name. And he wasn’t answering me."

On Wednesday, opening statements were made in the trial of Kim Potter, who was charged with first and second degree manslaughter in the shooting of Daunte Wright. According to WCCO, never before seen footage of the fatal shooting was played in court as witnesses were called to the stand. Wright’s mother, who was up first, testified that the day her son was killed was the worst of her life.

Katie Bryant cried on the stand as she described her son’s personality, calling her 20-year-old a “jokester” and a “wonderful father” to an infant child. She said that on April 11, she was watching her grandson when Wright stopped by their home to get some cash for a car wash and gas, which would be the last time she saw him alive.

Bryant testified that she could tell it was him in the video because she recognized his tennis shoes.

“I wanted to comfort my baby,” she said. “I wanted to hold him. I wanted to protect him, because that’s what mothers do.”

Potter is charged with first and second degree manslaughter in the April 11 shooting. If convicted, she faces maximum sentences of 15 years and 10 years, respectively.