Crime
PSV Driver Testifies in Kemar Gooding Murder Trial at Constitution River Terminal
A PSV driver testifies in a murder trial about witnessing a man chasing and attacking another individual at a construction site in Constitution River Terminal. The witness provides details of the incident.
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A public service vehicle (PSV) driver testified on Monday that he saw Kemar Gooding chasing a man in the Constitution River Terminal who later “juck” him with something before running off.
Testifying in the murder trial of Jamar Ricardo Watson in Supreme Court No. 4, Korey Marshall said he was driving along the road to exit the van stand when he saw Gooding, who he knew as a conductor named Mar, running behind a man.
He said the two ran past the stalls and towards the construction site where the terminal was being built. Marshall recalled that the assailant went inside the construction site before stopping behind the gate at the entrance with Gooding still in pursuit.
“But then I see Mar fall down on his back…and the fella approached and stood up over him and I see he pull out something – a shiny object – and just juck Mar once,” he testified, adding that the assailant ran off into the construction site.
He said Gooding was about eight feet from the other man when they reached the site, and he tried to get up after his attacker ran away, but fell again. Marshall stated that he could not see exactly where Gooding had been wounded.
The driver told the court that four other men arrived on the scene from the van stand, and they, along with other persons on the site, began to throw rocks at one another. He said a policeman ran to the scene.
Two other conductors then picked up Gooding and placed him in Marshall’s ZR, and they took him to the nearby Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH). The witness later found out that Gooding had died.
Questioned by Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale S.C. as to whether he knew the assailant or could recall anything about him, the witness replied in the negative.
During the cross-examination by defence attorney Safiya Moore, Marshall said that when he saw the two men running towards the construction site, he allowed his vehicle to “roll forward” to observe what was going on, before coming to a stop since his conductor knew Gooding.
He stated that after dropping the victim to the hospital, he returned to work but received a call to head to the police station a few hours later, just after 12 p.m.
“I am suggesting to you that you did not see the person who was running in front of Mar turn around and stab him,” Moore put it to the witness.
“I disagree,” Marshall stated.
