'Chucky' Brown Trial | Witness recounts being shot during gun attack
Published:Thursday | October 4, 2018 | 12:38 PM
Nickoy Wilson, Gleaner writer
A Clarendon farmer today recounted at the trial of police constable Collis 'Chucky' Brown how he was shot in the gun attack in which Robert 'Gutty' Dawkins was killed along the Palmer's Cross main road in the parish.
Dawkins was fatally shot on January 10, 2009.
The witness testified that he was in the vicinity of the roadway when several gunshots were fired.
He told the court that he initially heard three shots and then about a minute later he heard five more.
He further testified that after the shooting subsided he noticed that he was shot in one of his legs.
The witness said that he ran from the scene but later returned to find a crowd of about 200 people gathered around the body of a man who he said was bleeding from the nostrils.
He told the court that he then went to the May Pen police station where he filed a report and was subsequently taken to the May Pen Hospital for treatment.
The court admitted into evidence a statement from the Southern Regional Health Authority which reportedly indicates that he was treated at hospital.
A statement by a family member of Dawkins was also admitted into evidence today.
Brown, who has been in custody since 2014, is indicted on charges stemming from Dawkins' murder in 2009 and the shooting deaths of Dwayne Douglas and Andrew Fearon on December 13, 2012.
Douglas and Fearon were killed along the Swansea main road in the parish.
The trial is being heard in the Home Circuit Court before Justice Vivienne Harris.
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