The police sergeant who interviewed accused Jakobe Jaheem Yarde spent a third day on the witness stand as the court watched the DVDs of that interview when Yarde’s murder trial continued in the No. 3 Supreme Court yesterday.
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Yarde, of Nurse Land, Bank Hall, St Michael, is accused of murdering Jerome Stuart, formerly of 8th Avenue, New Orleans, St Michael, on April 16, 2022.
He also pleaded not guilty to using a firearm without having a licence to do so; wounding Steve Hackett with intent; unlawfully and maliciously wounding Hackett; wounding Rasheed Bishop with intent; unlawfully and maliciously wounding Bishop; unlawfully and maliciously engaging in conduct – shooting at Michael Preville – which placed Preville in danger of death or serious bodily harm, and unlawfully and maliciously engaging in conduct – shooting at Cejay Ifill – which placed Ifill in danger of death or serious bodily harm, all on April 16, 2022.
He is being represented by attorneys Sade Harris, Suthany Hall and Elan Greenidge, while Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Krystal Delaney and Principal State Counsel Joyann Catwell are prosecuting.
The jury watched two DVDs of the recorded interview with the accused, conducted by Sergeant Asha Greaves on May 4, 2022.
In the interview, the accused said he saw the deceased and two other men at “the side of the road”.
He said they were the only people there. He did not know the other men.
“Them threaten my mother. He and he friends see my mother and threaten my mother. Them tell she them gine blow off she face or something like that,” Yarde said in the recording.
He continued that he saw Stuart when he “turn the corner”.
“He was walking towards me. At the time I was so frighten. That is the truth, Ma’am,” he told Sergeant Greaves. “It happened so fast.”
The accused further told the sergeant that after the incident, he took a taxi and went home.
He said he put “everything in a bag and put the bag in the garbage”.
“When I went inside, my mother come for me and ask me if I know anything about it. When my mother ask me I did so frighten I deny everything about it. That is to show how frighten I was, I didn’t even tell my mother something.”
He further explained he was referring to “the scene that happen in Baxter’s Road”.
The trial resumes today. A jury of eight women and four men, and two alternate jurors, are hearing the evidence, while Justice Carlisle Greaves presides. (HLE)