THREE murders committed in the vicinity of the Dunbeholden main road in St Catherine on different dates in 2017 have been pegged as the handiwork of alleged members of the so-called Tesha Miller faction of the Klansman Gang, according to prosecutors.

The incidents, which took place between August 2017 and November of the same year, resulted in the deaths of Richard Gray, Daniel Scott and Marcus Williams, and the wounding of another man.

A deputy superintendent of police who was the last to take the stand on Wednesday in the ongoing trial of 25 alleged members of the criminal outfit in the Home Circuit Division of the Supreme Court, testified that he was the one to assign investigators to probe the August 5, 2017 double murders of Scott and Williams and the wounding with intent case, as well as the November 28, 2017 murder of Gray. All the offences were committed in the vicinity of the Dunbeholden roadway.

According to the lawman, in the incident where Scott and Williams were killed, he arrived at the scene and observed a motor vehicle “in the middle of the road with the doors open”. He said he not only saw blood in the car but also saw several spent casings.

The cop said in November he again journeyed to the same roadway, this time where he saw the body of a man inside a shop with “what appeared to be gunshot wounds”. He said six spent casings, one damaged bullet and one blood sample were collected from that scene.

The cop, who said no one had been arrested in relation to the murders during his time in the division (St Catherine South), told the court that he had been “made aware of” a suspect in the murder of Gray but said that individual was later killed.

The accused Travis Drummond is charged with the murder of Gray which is count eight of the indictment.

The accused Tesha Miller, Rolando Jermaine Hall and Michael Wildman are all charged with the August 5, 2017 murders of Daniel Scott and Marcus Williams and the wounding with intent of another male which are listed on counts three, four and six of the indictment.

The cop is to continue his evidence on Thursday.

In the meantime, the prosecution continued to mount its case against the accused — Michael Wildman, Jerome Spike, Nashuan Guest, and Geovaughni McDonald — for “knowingly facilitating the commission” of the 2020 robbery and murder of a man called Noah Smith in St Andrew. The offences are contained in counts 15 and 16 of the indictment

Wednesday, a detective corporal who was one of several officers responding to the scene, said Smith was found lying face down in a pool of blood with hands and feet bound in the kitchen of a St Andrew home.

She said she later went to a Kingston morgue where along with an acquaintance of Smith, she observed the post-mortem. That acquaintance testified Monday that on March 9, 2020, he visited a Kingston morgue where he identified Smith’s body.

The police witness was, however, challenged by defence attorney Paul Gentles who insisted that her identification of Smith’s body was flawed as she had only seen him sideways when she visited the crime scene based on her account from the witness stand. The cop was however adamant that not only had she “seen his face” as she had bent down to look, but also said the clothing he wore and the fact that Smith’s hands and feet were still bound when she saw his body at the morgue made her identification foolproof.

Gentles, however, maintained that the cop’s evidence had serious gaps.

The cop, however, insisted that she was certain that the individual she saw at the scene and the one she saw at the morgue were one and the same.

The cross-examination of the cop will continue at a later date.

The 25 accused, the second faction of the gang to now be tried by the courts, are to answer to 16 offences allegedly committed over the span of five years, between August 2017 and November 2022, according to the case being built by the Crown.