Murder Trial Continues: Expert Testimony
In the Supreme Court murder trial of Antonio Myers this morning [Mar.22], the jury heard expert witness Janet Johnson testify that she believed that it was likely that there were two shooters, and gave details of the how the bullets entered the car.
30-year-old Kumi Harford was killed at around 5am on St. Monica’s Road on December 5th, 2009. Antonio Myers, 25, stands trial for the murder, charges which he denies. During the trial, a Police officer previously identified Mr Harford as a high ranking member of the 42nd gang, and the defendant Antonio Myers as a high-ranking member of the Middletown gang.
Experts previously testified that one of the guns used to kill Mr Harford had also been used in the murder of Kenwandee “Wheels” Robinson, who was fatally shot in the same area a few months prior.
Ms Johnson, a specialist in the reconstruction of crime scenes, testified that she had traced the trajectories of thirteen rounds (bullets) that had entered the car; and that only one was from a 9mm pistol. All the others were from a 40 calibre pistol.
From her trajectory analysis she said that one bullet had entered the car from the front, going through the windscreen on the driver’s side. This had been fired from the one o’clock position. Going clockwise around the car, three bullets had been fired from the right rear quarter, driver’s side, of the car. These had been fired from the four and five o’clock positions. Still going clockwise, six bullets had been fired from the ten and eleven o’clock positions.
The expert witness said that one of the three bullets that came from the ten o’clock position was a 9mm and that bullet struck Mr Harford in the head, and was recovered from his body. One of the 40 calibre bullets that came from the four o’clock position struck Mr Harford in the hand.
Under cross-examination from Defence lawyer Jerome Lynch, QC, Ms Johnson said that it was possible that the first shot was the shot from the one o’clock position and could have been made while the car was still moving and before it had properly turned off St Monica’s Road onto Mission Lane.
Still under cross-examination, she held to her belief that a shooter was positioned just behind the green wall on the eastern side of St Monica’s Mission; and that this shooter or shooters accounted for the six bullets fired from the ten and eleven o’clock positions. She said that these locations for spent cases was consistent with them only behind the wall and not in the roadway.
The case continue this afternoon with Ms Janet Johnson still in the witness stand.
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