The elderly couple said they heard two men arguing with their neighbour before they tried to force him into their car, but he did not want to go.
The couple took to the floor after hearing the first shot and, after a second went off, they called 111.
In her closing submissions to the jury, Crown prosecutor Nicole Dore said the trial was all about drugs, narking and a weapon.
She urged the jurors to take into account text messages from Selwyn Paikea's cellphone after he arrived on Ross St and to read the complainant Mark Nathan's statement to police, in which he detailed what took place.
His evidence in court may seem odd but the trial was more than just about him, she said.
Selwyn Paikea's lawyer Richard Garbett said if Mr Nathan was indeed kidnapped, the crime would have been one of the strangest because it had happened in broad daylight, involved people who knew each other and was in view of neighbours. At the end of the incident, the two "kidnappers" drove off and the man who was supposed to be kidnapped walked off with his dog, he said.
Mr Nathan, he said, was a "liar" who had been declared a hostile witness in court and whose evidence could not be relied upon. Haupapa Paikea's lawyer Kelly Ellis echoed similar sentiments in her closing address.
The only evidence that linked the father and son to the alleged crime came from Mr Nathan, who was most unhelpful and deemed to be a hostile witness, she submitted.
Ms Ellis said police had relied on Mr Nathan's evidence and got nowhere rather than that of the elderly couple that made more sense.
The jury is expected to retire before lunch today.
