KINGSTON, Jamaica – A security guard, who was stationed at an apartment complex in St Andrew where Omar Collymore lived with his wife, Simone Campbell-Collymore in January 2018, endured frustrating cross-examination from attorney-at-law Earnest Davis on Tuesday.

Simone, 32, and taxi operator Winston Walters, 36, were shot dead about 4:00 pm on January 2, 2018 just outside the apartment complex on Stanley Terrace in Red Hills where Simone lived with Collymore. The husband was soon after arrested in connection with the murders.

He is now on trial in the Home Circuit Court in Kingston along with Shaquille Edwards, Michael Adams and Dwayne Pink.

Davis is providing legal representation for Pink.

The security guard, who is a witness in the case, huffed and puffed as he pondered whether to respond to Davis, who posed the same questions repeatedly to the witness even after receiving responses.

None of the responses seemed pleasing enough for Davis, who was sternly encouraged by Judge Leighton Pusey to move on to other questions.

The guard testified recently that in the wee hours of the fateful day when Simone and Walters were killed, he spotted a suspicious man sleeping in a light blue motor vehicle that was parked adjacent to a parking spot belonging to the Collymores.

He alleged that the man, who was sleeping in the car, turned out to be one of the shooters in the murders.

He said he discovered the vehicle with the man inside while doing a foot patrol of the complex around 3:00 am on January 2, 2018. Since the vehicle appeared suspicious to him, he went to inspect it and said he tried to awaken the man sleeping inside, but to no avail.

According to him, the man woke up slightly but hastily went back to sleep. The guard then said the man eventually emerged from the vehicle and approached Collymore’s residence and was let in. He shared that when he checked the log book of vehicles moving in and out, he realised that the person had been logged as being a visitor of Collymore.

He shared that when his shift ended on January 2, 2018, he went home and in the evening. He was reportedly summoned back to the apartment complex by a superior. When he arrived, he said there were a lot of people on the scene.

He said he viewed footage from a closed-circuit television camera system, which showed a taxi that had turned into the driveway of the complex, being approached by four men on motorcycles.

Two of the men pumped bullets into the taxi, killing Simone and Walters.

The security guard said that he identified one of the shooters as being the same man who was sleeping in the car earlier that day.

The trial continues today.

– Jason Cross