The Crown has told a Tauranga jury in a Maketu murder trial the evidence clearly showed the accused deliberately shot the victim in an act of retaliation and wanted to teach him a lesson.
Tyrone Daniel Flavell, 20, who is on trial in the High Court at Tauranga, does not deny shooting Maketu father-of-five Isaac Dale Bushell on December 8 last year after they became involved in a confrontation in a beachside carpark in the township.
But denies he acted with murderous intent.
During his closing address to the jury Crown prosecutor Greg Hollister-Jones said the evidence was absolutely clear this was no accidental shooting, and the jury's verdict must be murder.
Mr Hollister-Jone said after Mr Bushell punched the defendant twice in the forehead he walked off and was leaving, but for the defendant that was not the end of it.
Flavell deliberately loaded his pump-action shotgun with a bullet taken from the glovebox of his vehicle and pursued Mr Bushell seeking another confrontation.
Pumping the shotgun, he aimed it at unarmed Mr Bushell's chest, and when Mr Bushell squared up to him and taunted him Flavell pulled the trigger, knowing what was going to happen.
This was the not actions of man acting in self-defence, this was the actions of "angry, adrenalin-fuelled" man pursuing somebody who had hit him, threatened and taunted him, and he decided to teach him a lesson, Mr Hollister-Jones said.
At no time during his police interviews did Flavell ever refer to the shooting as accidental infact he used the words retaliation in his interviews with police.
Mr Hollister-Jones said quiet rage had been building up inside Flavell and had " burst its banks" after being assaulted, taunted and sworn at by Mr Bushell and told "you're fxxxxd", and he intentionally pulled the trigger knowing it would kill.