ST MARY, Jamaica—  Devon Williams, who is charged with the murder of three-year-old Asher Campbell, and the injuring of five other people in Port Maria, St Mary was remanded into custody when he appeared before the court on Friday.

Williams was remanded based on the request of his lawyer Dane Marsh, who said he is awaiting vital information from overseas in regards to his client.

The judge granted the request and set Williams’ next hearing in the St Mary Parish Court for Thursday, July 25.

Campbell was laid to rest on Sunday, July 14.

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Williams is accused of killing Asher and injuring five people in an unprovoked attack on the afternoon of May 29.

According to the Port Maria police, between 3:30 and 4:00pm, Asher was walking with family members in Pagee when he was attacked by Williams wielding an iron pipe and a knife.

As the family members tried to stop the attack, the boy’s mother and four others were chopped and hit on different parts of their bodies.

The injured include Asher’s nine-year-old sister, who received a wound to her left hand; his mother, 45-year-old Phillipa Walker, who received an injury to her right hand; 58-year-old Phillip Brown, who received stab wounds to his face and lacerations to both hands; 61-year-old Michael Brown, who was hit in his head and on his fingers; and 56-year-old David “Choppa John” Waugh, who is a newspaper vendor and labourer.