“HE’S dead, he’s dead, Sir, he’s dead.”

That encapsulated the recollection of a glum prosecution witness tasked with identifying the body of Kemar Williams, the victim of a 2018 double murder in Pineapple Lane, St Catherine, supposedly at the hands of members of a faction of the Klansman Gang.

The woman, who took the stand on Thursday morning during the ongoing trial of 25 suspected members of the Tesha Miller faction of the Klansman gang in the Home Circuit Division of the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston, had been asked by the prosecutor marshalling the evidence to explain her response during the identification of the body of Williams at a Spanish Town-based funeral home.

According to the witness, who said she had been notified of the murder of Williams on February 24, 2018 sometime after 10:00 pm and she went to the funeral home with several other people days later on March 7.

She said they remained in the waiting area until a police officer escorted them to a room where a doctor and a female waited.

She described that room as having “some bodies in there, like duppy, dead bodies” as several defendants chuckled, amused at her choice of words.

Recalling the moment she came face to face with the remains of Williams she said, “They pulled down the bag that he was in, I saw his face, I could identify him from his face, his hair, he has a lot of hair on his head, so I knew it was [Kemar].”

The woman told the acting deputy director of public prosecutions leading the evidence that she then became “emotional” to the point where she was advised to “go outside” to compose herself.

“I was crying to see [Kemar] in that situation,” the witness told the court.

Asked to explain what she meant by “situation” she said, “He’s dead, he’s dead, Sir, he’s dead,” with a faraway look on her face.

The fatal shooting of Williams is one of several murders on the 32-count indictment brought by the prosecution against the alleged gang members.

The shooting, which took place on February 24, 2018 at a bar/shop and cookshop in Pineapple Lane, Bog Walk, St Catherine, left Leon Burke, the owner/proprietor, and Williams dead and a third man nursing serious wounds.

Alleged faction leader Tesha Miller and his co-accused Kirk Forrester are supposedly behind those murders, according to counts nine, 10 and 11 on the 32-count indictment produced by the Crown.

Count nine charges Miller and Forrester with “facilitating the commission of a serious offence by a criminal organisation” — the February 24, 2018 murder of Leon Burke — while count 10 further charges Miller and Forrester with facilitating the commission of a serious offence by a criminal organisation, the murder of Kemar Williams.

Count 11 further charges them with knowingly facilitating the commission of a serious offence by a criminal organisation, the wounding with intent of (name withheld).

On Monday, a detective sergeant who had been the initial investigator into the double murder and wounding incident said up to the time the matter was reassigned in 2019, he had arrested no one in relation to the incident and also had no suspects.

The trial continues on Monday before Supreme Court judge Justice Dale Palmer, who is trying the matter alone.