Kevin Smith threatened to crash car and kill us all, Ruddock tells court

Murder accused Andre Ruddock on Monday claimed that his now-deceased pastor, Kevin Smith, wanted him to take the blame for the October 17, 2021 murder of 39-year-old Taneka Gardner. But when he insisted that he would not, an argument developed between both of them in a police service vehicle which was taking them to Kingston from Montego Bay and the pastor threatened to crash the car and kill them all.

According to Ruddock, because of the threat, he was taken from the vehicle, in which three members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force were also travelling, and placed in a different police car, which was also destined for Kingston for both men to be charged.

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“Kevin Smith said, ‘Do not tell anyone I killed Taneka Gardner and Michael Brown,’ ” Ruddock, who is on trial for Gardner’s murder, testified in the Home Circuit Court, downtown Kingston.