The 9-year-old son of Steven and Jordan Wheeler testified he and his younger brother fled their father’s home only seconds before his father shot their mother five times in the head.

The boy took the stand Thursday at Steven Bryce Wheeler’s first-degree murder trial in Macomb County Circuit Court in Mount Clemens for the death of his estranged wife, Jordan, 33, in October 2023 in their former marital home in Clinton Township.

Jordan Wheeler, who filed for divorce two months earlier, had moved with her three children to her sister Kelly’s Mount Clemens home, and Steven Wheeler remained residing in their home on Woodward Street southwest of 15 Mile Road and Gratiot Avenue.

Colton Wheeler, who was 8 at the time of the incident, said on the stand he and his brother, Carson, then 7, fled the home because, “We were scared,” after their dad yelled “f-words” several times at their mother, who had arrived minutes earlier upon the boys’ request because Steven Wheeler was being “mean” to them.

Just before they fled, Steven Wheeler ran through the hallway toward his bedroom, “fell” and created a hole in the wall with his right shoulder, the boy testified.

When they left, Jordan was near an ottoman in the living room, he recounted.

“I thought we would just go to the (Jordan’s) car” parked in the street in front of the home, he said.

Ten seconds after they left the house and as they stood at the trunk off Jordan’s car, “We heard the gunshots,” he said. “They were really loud and made a flashing light.” He further described them as “loud booms.”

The shots scared them, he recounted, and they ran down the street and knocked on the back door of a home. Moments later, a woman who lived across the street drove up in a white pickup truck and told the boys to get in, he said.

The youth testified on the second day in Wheeler’s trial. The boy was dressed in a dark sweater quarter-zip shirt and his hair neatly combed. He held a microphone given to him to amplify his quiet voice as family members of both his mother and father watched from the courtroom gallery.

His answers to questions by Assistant Macomb Prosecutor Kesley Heath were succinct and clear. Defense attorney Noel Erinjeri’s cross-examination was brief.

Colton testified before their mother arrived, he and Carson were playing the game, “Roadblock,” on an I-Pad. His dad was drinking alcohol that he poured from a glass jar into a cup, he recalled.

While he was talking to his mother, his father took the tablet device from him, ended the phone call and threw the device at Colton, hitting him in the back.

His father told the boys to “go to bed,” he said, which he said made him feel “sad,” and he “started crying.”

He said his dad picked him up, and he rolled on a pillow. Steven Wheeler then also fell down.

“I went back to the couch and covered up in a blanket and started crying some more” because his back still hurt, he said, adding he and his brother were in the bedroom, and he called his mother.

“We asked her to come pick us up,” he said. “I was scared.”

He said he didn’t know why he was scared.

When Jordan arrived, “She told us to get our pajamas on.”

He described her mood as “a little angry, it seemed like.”

They put on their pajamas and went into the living room, where, “He (Steven W/heeler) was saying bad words, the f-word.”

He quoted his father as saying, “Get the f-word out of my house.”

Other evidence has revealed that Jordan, who was audio and video recording her visit, called 911 after Steven grabbed her in the kitchen.

Steven Wheeler went to a closet in his bedroom and retrieved the handgun he used to shoot his wife. Immediately after the shooting, he yells, “F— you. I f—ing killed you bitch. I shot you in the f—ing head,” and screams at the dispatcher, “I shot her in the f—ing head,” according to the recording.

Colton Wheeler said he never saw the gun that night but had seen previously it in father’s bedroom in an open case and one time saw it under the living room TV. He said his father had a rule the children could not touch the weapon.

The gun, four bullet casings and one live round were found in the living room by responding police officers.

Colton described his mother as “nice” who “would help me with my homework.”

He and his brother now live in Ohio with their grandparents.

Also taking the stand Thursday was Klajdi Ballo, who was one of many responding police officers.

Ballo testified he found Jordan Wheeler “in a sitting position” and “leaning forward” with her head down. She had a backpack over her shoulder, he said.

“I was able to see a gunshot to the left side of her head,” he said. “There was severe trauma to the left side.”

In his body camera video and audio shown in court, he says to fellow officers he initially felt a “very light pulse” on Jordan Wheeler.

Moments later, he checked again.

“There’s no pulse I can feel anymore,” he tells other offices in the video. “She’s gone.”

The trial in front of Judge Julie Gatti is scheduled to resume Friday and go into next week.