The trial of two men accused of attempted murder continued yesterday in the Supreme Court, with the jury hearing evidence about the investigation.

Shelton Baker along with Stacey Robinson are alleged to have tried to kill Lionel Thomas Jr on April 30 last year close to his home in St David’s along with Shannon Dill, who has already admitted being involved in the attack.

A third defendant, Roshaunte Davis, has meanwhile denied helping Dill after the shooting.

Mr Thomas previously told the court that he was set upon by a group of people and shot twice, while a female friend testified to seeing three men and one woman leaving the area. She said she heard two of the men stop by a parked car — later linked to Dill — before continuing on their way. Another witness (Female B) told the court that after being woken by Dill, she and another woman went searching for Mr Robinson. They then received communications from Ms Davis, who asked to be picked up.

They then found Ms Davis, along with Mr Baker, Mr Robinson and Dill in a St David’s park. The three women later went to collect Dill’s car, but abandoned the effort after being confronted by a friend of Mr Thomas.

As the trial continued yesterday, Cheryl Beach, of the Serious Crime Unit, told the court that hours after the shooting she was involved in the police interview of Female B, who was first considered a suspect and later a witness.

That afternoon, she and other officers conducted a search of a park in St David’s, which she said was only a short distance from Smith’s Hill Road, although she did not know the name of the park itself. She was further involved in the case the next day, when Mr Baker was arrested and taken to Hamilton Police Station. She told the court that she had collected Mr Baker’s clothes as evidence and swabbed his hands for gunshot residue (GSR).

However, under cross-examination by defence attorney Marc Daniels, representing Mr Baker, she agreed that the defendant’s custody record said nothing about her collecting GSR, but maintained that she had done so.

She also agreed that she had not swabbed the desk where the GSR swabs were placed. “That is not for us officers to do,” she said.

Asked about Mr Baker’s behaviour, she agreed that he had been calm and co-operative throughout the process.

The jury was also shown phone records, highlighting a string of electronic communications between Female B’s phone and Dill on the morning of the shooting, and a series of missed calls from Ms Davis to Dill’s phone shortly after his arrest.

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