BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - AN eyewitness, who gave evidence in the Trevis Henville murder trial, said that the teenager was engaged in conversation with him when he was shot to death.
The 19-year-old Henville was gunned down execution-style on the morning of April 17, 2012 at Upper Shaw Avenue in McKnight.
Charged with his murder and currently on trial are Randy Taylor and Lennox Gumbs, who were arrested less than 48 hours after the incident.
The eyewitness, Elvis Browne, testified yesterday (Jul. 9) that he knew Henville by the alias ‘Idrin’ and worked with him at Browne's Bakery on Central Street.
Browne told the Court that on the said morning he was at home when he was called to his verandah by Henville. He said he and Henville spoke for about 10 to 15 minutes.
He said the teen suddenly threw his bicycle to the ground and immediately started running, adding that he stood and "peeped" over a wall, saw "something black" and then heard what appeared to be gunshots being fired.
Browne testified that he immediately ran to the confines of his home and did not emerge until he did not hear any more gunfire.
He then told the Court that when he went outside after sounds of gunfire were no longer heard, he saw Henville lying in the road.
Browne said he ran down the road where Dr. Derrick Jeffers' office is located and saw a brown car, almost at the end of the road leading to the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College, drove off.
The witness testified that he ran back up the road to where Henville was lying down.
He said when the Police Officers arrived, they spoke to him, and that he went with them and was further questioned at the Basseterre Police Station.
Browne said the deceased teen wore short jeans trousers, a grey T-shirt and "brownish draggers".
He further said that he could not have identified the "black thing" he saw because "it happened suddenly".
Browne said he saw the black thing coming from the southern end of his home and that he was on his verandah when he saw it.
At cross examination, Attorney Chesley Hamilton, a member of the defence counsel, asked the witness, "Do you know someone by the name of Randy Taylor?" to which he replied in the negative.
