Murder-accused Leroy Symons was a “wannabe” gangster with links to different factions, according to a police expert who testified in his trial today.Sergeant Alexander Rollin, supervisor of the Gang Targeting Unit, said of the 21-year-old: “I would struggle to put Mr Symons into a gang. I know him to associate with members of St Monica’s Road, the 42nd gang. I know him to associate with Middletown gang members as well as Parkside gang members. I don’t consider him to be a member of any of those gangs.“I would put Leroy Symons into a ‘wannabe’ category. What a wannabe is is someone who might look up to older gang members, someone who might find a gang lifestyle exciting.”Sgt Rollin said Parkside and Middletown are allies who are locked in a murderous feud with the 42 gang.Mr Symons’ half-brother Ronniko Burchall, 22, is accused alongside him of killing Shane Minors, 30. According to Sgt Rollin, he saw Mr Burchall “maybe once a week” socialising with Parkside gang members in the Court Street area prior to 2010, and sometimes in the Middletown gang area nearby.From early 2010 onwards, Sgt Rollin said he saw Mr Burchall “almost on a daily basis” in the Middletown area, associating with Middletown gang members.Mr Minors was shot dead on the doorstep of his Pembroke home in the early hours of December 17 2009. His body was found by his family later that morning.Mr Burchall is accused of carrying out the murder while Mr Symons is said to have shown him how to use the gun and given directions to the victim’s home in South Terrace, Pembroke.Sgt Rollin said: “I don’t consider Shane Minors to be a gang member at all.”However, he said Mr Minors’ brother, Shaki Minors, was a member of the 42 gang at the time, who had a 42 gang tattoo across his back.Shaki Minors was shot at the Southside cinema in St David’s the month before his brother was killed, according to Sgt Rollin.Prosecutor Robert Welling told the jury during his opening speech that Shane Minors was shot “simply because he was the brother of Shaki Minors”.He said the shooting came amid an ongoing feud between the Parkside and 42 gang that had seen Mr Burchall’s childhood friend Gary [Fingaz] Cann shot dead two days beforehand in Sandys.Mr Cann was described today by Sgt Rollin as someone “close to the top” of the Parkside gang who had Parkside tattooed across his hands.The day before the Minors murder, Troy [Yankee] Rawlins was shot at on Court Street, in the heart of Parkside territory.Sgt Rollin described Mr Rawlins as an associate of, and mentor to, the Parkside gang. He said Parkside, and their allies in the Middletown gang, had “a great deal of loyalty” to Mr Rawlins.The shooting of Mr Rawlins has been described by Mr Welling during the trial as “the catalyst” for Shane Minors being shot and killed 16 hours later.They deny murder, with Mr Burchall denying an additional charge of using a firearm to commit murder, and the case continues.