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2013 Old Year’s night murder …Victim’s relatives recall deadly shooting
Relatives of Old Year’s night murder victim, Carlissa Mathews, have testified to witnessing the shooting incident
Murdered Accused: Jermaine Maynard
which resulted in her death. Mathews was allegedly shot in the head in the vicinity of Kentucky Fried Chicken, (KFC) by her ex-boyfriend, Jermaine Maynard, on December 31, 2013.
Reports had indicated that minutes before the shooting, Maynard approached the 20-year-old woman, and requested an audience with her. Matthews refused and was shot to the head.
She was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, (GPHC) where she succumbed early New Year’s Day, 2014.
Reports also indicated that the accused who fled the scene after the shooting was nabbed at the ‘back track’ crossing at Springlands, Corentyne on January 2, as he was about to board a boat.
Maynard, 44, is currently facing a trial at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for the murder. He pleaded not guilty to the charge before Justice Navindra Singh and a mixed jury on Tuesday.
The accused is being represented by Attorney Adrian Thompson. Yesterday, State Counsel Siand Dhurjon, Narissa Leander and Michael Shahoud, called six witnesses to the stand.
Among the witnesses were the dead girl’s mother, aunt and her mother’s fiancé. The mother, Carol Kennedy, recalled that she was present on the night her daughter was shot. The woman told the court that her daughter had shared an abusive relationship with the accused.
The witness said, however, that her daughter had severed the relationship with Maynard six months before the shooting. She said that on the night of December 30, 2013, her daughter, Carlissa, was with relatives (herself included) outside the KFC outlet on Water and Croal Streets Georgetown, when Maynard showed up.
She recalled that her daughter spoke to her former boyfriend briefly before turning away from him. Kennedy told the court that shortly after, Maynard pulled out a gun from his side and shot her daughter. The woman recalled that her daughter collapsed and she immediately ran to her side. She said that she picked her up and held her in her arms.
She recalled telling her injured daughter, “Girl, you can’t die now!” even as the shooter stood over them pressing on the trigger of the silver pistol; the gun clicked three times. At one point, Kennedy said that she started to advance toward the shooter but her fiancé keep her back, telling her that Maynard was still armed and could shoot her as well.
Kennedy said that after Maynard left the scene of the shooting, she followed him leaving her fiancé, Collis Bruce, to take her daughter to the hospital. The woman recalled that she trailed Maynard, who walked until he was in the vicinity of City Hall, on Regent Street. There, the woman told court that she saw Maynard brandish the gun at Rasta man, who was passing on a bicycle and the man dismounted his cycle and handed it over to Maynard. And he took off.
Bruce was next to testify. He told the court that after witnessing the shooting he took Carlissa Mathews to GPHC. While at the hospital, the man said that the doctor showed him Matthew’s injury; a single gunshot wound to the head and a silver looking article was stuck in the back of her head.
Police Witness Phillip Bowman testified that on January 3, 2014 he contacted Maynard and put the allegation of murder to him. Bowman said that the accused immediately denied saying “Me ain’t shoot nobody.” The trial continues today.
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