Jeffrey Adams' sleepover at Kinta Stanton's house last spring ended with a gunshot wound and an ambulance ride to the hospital.

Adams, 18, testified in Family Court yesterday about the April 8 morning Stanton when allegedly shot him by accident while playing with a gun in his basement bedroom. Stanton - one of five teens charged in the March 2008 fatal attack on a Starbucks manager in an underground Center City concourse - was out on bail and on house arrest at the time of Adams' injury.

Adams initially told police a stranger shot him at 16th and Ruscomb streets, around the corner from Stanton's Smedley Street home.

Yesterday, at Stanton's preliminary hearing on aggravated assault and related charges, Adams said: "I ain't want him to have any more problems with his prior case . . . I believed he was gonna beat it, so I made up a story that I got shot at 16th and Ruscomb."

Stanton, 17, was the only defendant in the attack on Starbucks manager Sean Patrick Conroy who was to be tried as a juvenile. Then, the judge cited his cooperation with authorities and his amenability to treatment as reasons for remanding him to juvenile court.

But after Adams' shooting, a judge decided to return Stanton to adult court in the Conroy murder trial. He also is charged as an adult in the Adams case.

Yesterday, Stanton appeared in court in khakis and a red plaid shirt, his hands cuffed behind his back and a rosary dangling from his neck. He showed no reaction when Common Pleas Senior Judge Alfred J. DiBona Jr. ordered him held for trial on all charges.

DiBona set the trial for July 30.

Adams testified that Stanton hadn't threatened him before firing and that he believed the incident was accidental.

Still, in the moments after the shooting, the teens scrambled to conceal it.

"His mom heard me screaming. She said: 'What was that?' Kinta said: 'Nothing, it was nothing,' and she said: 'OK,' " Adams said.

Adams said he was "amazed" and "stunned" when he realized the bullet had entered his left hip.

But instead of calling 9-1-1, Adams called a friend, who alerted paramedics. Adams met the ambulance on the street behind Stanton's home, he said.

Doctors operated to remove the bullet, and Adams spent two days at Albert Einstein Medical Center, he said.

It's unclear if investigators recovered the gun or determined its origin. A gag order has been issued in the case.

Stanton and the four other defendants - Ameer Best, Arthur Alston, Rasheem Bell and Nashir Fisher - are charged with third-degree murder in Conroy's death.

Conroy, 36, the manager of a Starbucks in the Philadelphia Marriott at 12th and Market streets, allegedly was attacked from behind by the five teens as he walked on the underground subway concourse near 13th and Market streets.

Authorities have said the assault triggered Conroy's deadly asthma attack. *