For the first time since the start of the One Don Klansman Gang Trial, a ballistics expert took the witness stand, highlighting linkages between crime scenes and firearms recovered that are associated with members of the gang. Based on evidence so far, the police have recovered two illegal firearms said to be associated with the alleged criminal organization. The findings of a ballistics report suggest that one of the recovered firearms is linked to over two murder counts on the indictment. A ballistics expert within the Jamaica Constabulary Force, detailed how he analyzed gun-related evidence concerning the Klansman Gang Trial. He explained that he examined spent casings regarding ten incidents to include nine alleged murders.
With a power-point presentation as his guide, the police witness demonstrated how he used a computer based system known as the integrated ballistics identification system, ibis, to capture digital images of unique marks found on spent casings and compared them with previously digitized evidence which then allowed the system to suggest a high potential match … Enabling a link between a particular firearm and a specific crime.
In this case, it was disclosed that five different firearms were identified to be linked to the ten crime scenes the expert reviewed. Two of those firearms were since recovered, a sig sauer .45 pistol seized after an alleged shootout between the police and the defendant Tareek James also known as cj, and the other, a rifle, handed over to the police by a former gang member now turned crown witness. The ballistics expert explains that human-like unique names are randomly assigned to the firearms through a system to track the firearm’s movement and pattern. The human-like name for the sig sauer .45 pistol is ersela.
According to the witness ersela is a multiple activity firearm as it has been featured in six crime-related incidents, but only three are connected to the charges on the indictment. The three incidents are the alleged murder of a man called outlaw who was formally identified as Patrick Tulloch, on November 2, 2017, in Lauriston St. Catherine, an alleged murder of a man in the Spanish Town bus park and the alleged murder of Jermaine Bryan on September 9, 2017 in the new nursery community also in Spanish Town.
Bryan’s house was reportedly set ablaze after he and his girlfriend were shot and killed. They were both burnt beyond recognition. However it is suspected that another firearm was used to allegedly shoot Bryan’s girlfriend. The ballistics expert is expected to continue giving evidence when the trial reconvenes on Thursday morning at 10.
