KINGSTON, Jamaica — The two men charged for the shooting death of 51-year-old Albert Barnes, a Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus driver, are to return to the Gun Court section of the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on March 8 for a bail application.

The duo, Garfield Walters, 22, and 18-year-old George Ballentine, both of Bedward Gardens, Kingston 7, are charged with murder, illegal possession of firearm and illegal possession of ammunition.

The men were remanded in custody when they appeared in court on Thursday.

Barnes was driving a JUTC bus along Bedward Crescent in August Town, when he was shot on December 29.

The police were summoned and he was found with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to hospital where he died while being treated.

Walters later surrendered to the Yallahs police in St Thomas, on January 1, while Ballentine was picked up by the police during an operation in August Town, St Andrew, on January 4.

Tanesha Mundle