AN Independent Commission of Investigations (Indecom) officer detailed for a seven-member jury Monday some of the steps he took to secure a 2013 police fatal shooting scene on Acadia Drive in Barbican, St Andrew.

The Indecom officer is the same person who was spotted by defence attorney Hugh Wildman earlier this year sitting around a table in a room adjoining the courthouse along with another witness in the case and prosecutor Kathy-Ann Pyke. That witness’s statement was reportedly placed on a table in front of all three, while Pyke went through the witness’s statement with her.

On Monday, the Indecom officer explained how he canvassed for witnesses after receiving anonymous communication from two alleged eyewitnesses.

A probe of the area eventually led him to Agriculture Minister Floyd Green and the other alleged eyewitness who sent anonymous communication to Indecom regarding what they said they saw at the scene.

The scene was where Matthew Lee, Ucliffe Dyer and Mark Allen were shot dead on January 12, 2013 in an alleged shoot-out with the police. At the time of the incident, Green was living on the third floor of an apartment complex on Acadia Drive. He and the other witness alleged that they saw certain activities surrounding the shooting death of the men, but according to Green during his testimony on the witness stand previously, he did not see when any of the men were shot by the police. He said he observed when they became motionless.

Green also told the court that he had not expected to be called upon to testify in the matter.

Six members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) are standing trial in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston in relation to the shooting deaths of the men who were travelling in a blue Mitsubishi Outlander motor vehicle when they were signalled by cops to stop. It is alleged that men alighted from the vehicle and challenged the cops in a gun battle, and then met their demise. A fourth man was said to have escaped. The cops have maintained that they were acting in self-defence.

They are Sergeant Simroy Mott and Corporal Donovan Fullerton, along with constables Andrew Smith, Sheldon Richards, Orandy Rose, and Richard Lynch. Fullerton is also charged with making a false statement to Indecom.

The officer told the court Monday that when he arrived at the scene in 2013, he introduced himself to an officer and stated the reason for his presence. He said he was shown where he could find the investigating officer.

“I then entered the cordoned area and walked up to a few JCF members. Some were in uniform and some were in vests marked ‘police’. My purpose was to investigate the matter to ascertain what happened and make recommendations thereafter,“ he said.

The trial resumes Tuesday.

– Jason Cross