CLEVELAND -- The trial of a Cleveland firefighter accused of killing three people and injuring two others over fireworks on July 4 got under way Tuesday.

Terrance Hough is charged with three counts of aggravated murder and two counts of attempted murder.

Opening statements were given and then one of the surviving victims took the stand, crying as he gave his account of what happened the night of the shooting.

Both sides agreed that Hough snapped when he grabbed a .40-caliber semi-automatic handgun and killed Jacob Feichtner, Katherine Rosby and Bruce Anderson and then injured two others.

It happened last July 4 on Sky Lane Drive at Feichtner's Old Brooklyn house.

Prosecutors said Hough, who is married with two children, was furious because Feichtner and a friend were shooting fireworks off in the street.

Donnie Walsh, who was injured in the shooting, told the court what Feichtner said to Hough while standing in his driveway before he was shot.

"He said, 'What are you going to do, shoot me? Put the gun down and go back inside,'" Walsh said.

Walsh told the jury that Hough then raised his gun in the air and began to shoot, yelling "Yeah" with every shot.

"With every shot he had to yell, 'yeah,' as if it was a delight," Walsh said.

In opening statements at his Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court trial, assistant Prosecutor John Kosko said Hough shot one victim, then stood over him and pumped two more bullets into him.

"Terrance Hough lifted the gun, aimed it and shot Jacob Feichtner in the upper chest, in the left collarbone. He went down but he wasn't dead yet," Kosko said.

"He said to the defendant, 'You just shot me.' So the defendant walked over to him and, standing over him, put two more bullets into him."

Kosko said the shootings were deliberate. "It wasn't an accident. It wasn't self-defense. It wasn't insanity. It was cold-blooded, aggravated murder," he told the jury.

The defense said the shootings were not planned and therefore Hough should be found guilty of lesser charges such as murder or voluntary manslaughter instead of aggravated murder.

"What Terry did that morning was sudden passion, a fit of rage. The crimes he committed were not aggravated murder," said defense attorney Jack Hildebrand.

If convicted, Hough could get the death penalty.