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A ballistics expert who tested a pistol and ammunition recovered from a murder scene in Bog Walk, St Catherine, in 2018 where two men were killed and a third injured, on Tuesday revealed that six of the 18 cartridge casings he examined were fired from that same weapon.
During the incident, which took place along the Bog Walk Main Road in the vicinity of Pineapple Lane on February 24, 2018, small business operator Leon Burke and labourer Kemar Williams were shot and killed and another man seriously wounded.
That shooting is the substance of counts nine, 10 and 11 on the 32-count indictment being relied on by the Crown in the ongoing trial of 25 alleged members of what is referred to as the Tesha Miller faction of the Klansman gang. Count nine charges Miller, the alleged gang leader, and co-accused Kirk Forrester with “facilitating the commission of a serious offence by a criminal organisation”. Meanwhile, count 10 further charges Miller and Forrester with facilitating the commission of a serious offence by a criminal organisation — the murder of Williams. Count 11 further charges them with knowingly facilitating the commission of a serious offence by a criminal organisation, that is the wounding with intent of (name withheld).
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