ST. JAMES, Jamaica — Music producer Linval “Shab Don” Thompson Jr and his co-accused, Tajay Clark, are scheduled to return to the St. James Circuit Court docket on February 19, 2025, to face trial for his or her alleged involvement in a triple homicide.
The trial date was set on Wednesday when each males appeared earlier than Excessive Court docket Justice Judith Pusey. They continue to be in custody.
The lads are accused of killing Chadwell “Bomb Mind” Frazer, 27, Chamario “Chippy” Calvin, 24, and Toniann “Too Fly” Reid, 26, throughout a birthday celebration on Marl Highway in Rose Heights, St. James, on Could 25, 2022.
Throughout Wednesday’s proceedings, the Workplace of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) knowledgeable the courtroom that the trial couldn’t proceed as a result of a vital prosecution witness is presently in custody abroad. Efforts are being made to facilitate the witness’s testimony remotely.
“This isn’t the primary time the courtroom was being instructed this. In reality, the witness in query is in jail in Florida on a homicide cost and could be very unlikely to be out there as a witness on this matter,” mentioned King’s Counsel Tom Tavares-Finson, who’s representing Thompson Jr alongside lawyer Donahue Martin.
Clark is being represented by lawyer Khadine Coleman.
In line with stories, Calvin, Frazer, and Reid had been attending a birthday celebration in Rose Heights when a motorcar drove up, and gunmen exited and opened hearth on the gathering. The three victims had been pronounced lifeless, and two different people sustained accidents within the assault.
Thompson Jr has confronted authorized points previously. In October 2021, members of the Specialised Operations SWAT group discovered an unlawful firearm in a automobile he was touring in with co-accused Romario “BMR” Scott in Previous Harbour, St. Catherine. Thompson Jr was additionally accused of trying to bribe a police officer with $2 million in the course of the incident.
Scott pleaded responsible to gun-related expenses in April 2022 and is serving concurrent sentences of six years and one month for firearm possession and 4 years and one month for possession of ammunition.
Thompson Jr was later acquitted of each bribery and gun expenses.
With the trial now scheduled for February 19, investigations and authorized preparations are ongoing. The ODPP continues to discover choices to safe the testimony of the abroad witness, which might show pivotal within the case.
