Aussie's last words played to jury

A haunting 911 emergency phone call made by Australian property developer Greg McNicol as he was bleeding to death from a bullet wound has been played to a Detroit jury.

At the start of the call, which lasts about 70 seconds, McNicol, 45, is alert.

However, toward the end his voice becomes groggy before he apparently loses consciousness and dies.

"I've been shot through a vein in my leg," McNicol tells the 911 operator in his broad Australian accent.

Prosecutors allege Freddie Young shot McNicol on May 7, 2011, after McNicol gave Young's 20-year-old daughter, Ayana, an eviction notice.

Ms Young lived in a dilapidated apartment complex Mr McNicol bought for $US35,000 ($A34,000) in January 2011, but Ms Young had failed to keep up with rent.

Young, a 63-year-old US postal worker, was part of a 13-member syndicate that won $US29 million ($A28 million) in a lottery in February last year. He faces life in prison if convicted of the first degree premeditated murder charge.

On Wednesday the jury also watched a video taped interview Young had with head of the murder investigation, Sergeant William Hart, on May 12.

Young said he drove to the apartment complex to give a niece, Nicole, some money, but on his arrival he saw Ayana in an altercation with Mr McNicol.

"She took a swing at him and either grazed or missed him altogether," Young told Sgt Hart.

Young said he got out of his car, but did not realise he was holding a pistol and the gun suddenly went off.

McNicol was holding a beer can and lunged at him, Young said.

Young panicked, got back in his car and drove home, he said.

"I met my wife at the door," Young told Sgt Hart.

"I told her 'I think I may have shot someone'."

It was not until "two or three days later" when he saw a report about the shooting on a local TV news report that he realised McNicol had been shot, he said.

McNicol's wife, Katie, sitting in the back of the courtroom, sobbed as she listened to her husband in the final moments of his life.

"What's the problem?" the operator asks him.

"I've been shot," Mr McNicol replies.

The operator asks who shot him and Mr McNicol says: "One of my tenant's father."

When the operator repeats his answer Mr McNicol's voice trails off and he offers a weak "yes".

"Shot you where, sir?" the operator asks.

There is no answer.

"Sir? Did you hear me? Hello?" the operator says but never receives a reply.

McNicol was raised on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula and moved to the US in 1998, where he bought up properties in recession hit areas including Detroit, Toledo and California.

The trial, at Detroit's Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, continues.