A Dartmouth College student fatally shot during an argument with several Cal football players in 2005 had called the man who ended up shooting her and told him to “get over here and bring your pistol,” a former player testified Monday.

Joseph Crenshaw’s testimony came in the fifth day of the trial of Christopher Hollis, 24, on charges that he murdered his close friend Meleia Willis-Starbuck on College Avenue in the early morning hours of July 17, 2005.

Hollis has admitted to firing four or five shots into a crowd outside Unit 2 after responding to Willis-Starbuck’s repeated calls for help. One of the bullets struck Willis-Starbuck, killing her almost instantly.

Hollis’ attorney has asked jurors to return a verdict of manslaughter, which would spare him a life sentence.

Crenshaw, wearing a Cal athletics sweatshirt, downplayed the confrontation yesterday, saying the players were already apologizing when a shot killed Willis-Starbuck.

He rapidly recounted that he and five teammates had been chatting with Willis-Starbuck and four of her friends in the Unit 2 courtyard as a party was winding down.

One of the women complained to Crenshaw that former Cal football player David Gray called her friend “Chewbacca,” the hairy character from the Star Wars movies, Crenshaw said.

The two groups got into a “shouting match” as they walked to their cars on the east side of College, Crenshaw said.

But shortly after Gray and another man got in their car, they returned and apologized to the women, he said.

About that time, Willis-Starbuck told Hollis to bring his gun, he said. Crenshaw said he believed she was only pretending to call for backup so the men would leave.

“To this day I am mad at myself that I dismissed it,” Crenshaw said. “It seemed like it was a hoax to get us to leave.”