Susan Bacon took the stand at the trial of her youngest and middle sons on Monday afternoon.

Jamie and Jarrod Bacon were charged with multiple weapons offences after a concealed compartment with guns and ammunition was found inside an SUV following the attempted assassination of Jamie Bacon at their Surrey home.

Their mother was called as a witness by Crown prosecutor Teresa Mitchell-Banks.

Susan Bacon described how she was awakened by a loud noise early in the morning on April 13, 2007.

She and her husband David had turned in for the night about 11 p.m.

The family had moved from Abbotsford to a three-storey house in the 15800 block of 106 Avenue in Surrey in February of 2007.

They were sharing their house with all three of their sons.

Jamie lived in the basement with his girlfriend Chelsea, while Jonathan and Jarrod had rooms on the top floor, where their parents' bedroom was located.

Jarrod was out that evening, but everyone else was home.

Susan Bacon said she couldn't tell exactly what the sound was, but it was loud.

She awoke her husband, and as he was getting dressed, she went downstairs in her pyjamas to investigate.

"That's when the banging downstairs started," she said.

"Someone banging [on the door] and trying to get in. But I couldn't quite hear what the yelling was."

She called 911.

As she was talking to the operator, she could hear a cracking sound.

Then she could make out her son Jamie, yelling. He had made it inside.

"I've been shot," he kept saying, over and over.

He was breathing heavily and sweating profusely.

And he was bleeding from a cut behind one ear.

"Tell dad not to go outside," Jamie said.

But David was already heading to the front of the house.

"Tell dad to come back inside," she yelled at Jonathan.

She was "almost hysterical" she recalled.

About the time her husband came back, she said the police arrived and the 911 operator told them to go outside.

Susan insisted that Jonathan and Jamie put on bullet-proof vests when they went outside.

"I was scared that they might get shot by police," she said.

"They didn't treat James as a victim, or Jon."

When the prosecutor raised the issue of the SUV where the concealed weapons were found by police following the shooting, Susan Bacon said the Suburban parked in their garage belonged to Dennis Karbovanec, a friend of her sons since high school.

She said she had seen one of her sons driving it on occasion, but it was usually left parked in their driveway.

Karbovanec is a Bacon brothers associate who was sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 15 years for his part in the so-called Surrey Six killings that Jamie Bacon has been charged with.

The trial of Jamie and Jarrod Bacon continues.

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