Man denies shooting footballer dead
A man charged with the murder of Randy Robinson yesterday told Supreme Court he was not involved with the killing.Jay Dill told the court: “No, I didn’t shoot Randy. I didn’t have anything to do with Randy’s murder.”Mr Robinson, a 22-year-old footballer, was shot dead on March 31, 2011, as he walked along Border Lane North in Devonshire.Mr Dill, 23, along with 24-year-old Devon Hewey, have been charged with premeditated murder and using a firearm to commit the offence. They both deny the charges.Taking the stand in his own defence yesterday, Mr Dill said he was friendly with the victim, whom he knew from primary school and football.He told the court that he was at Wellington Oval in St George’s on November 11, 2011 when Mr Robinson was involved in a fight.“I was at the game, but I didn’t have nothing to do with Randy getting jumped,” he said. “I didn’t even see it happen. I don’t know who was involved because there was so many people in the bar. Everyone was running up and down so I just walked outside into the parking lot area.”He said Mr Robinson’s mother confronted him outside the bar about the attack, but he put up his hands and denied being involved. At that point, he said she hit him in the back of his helmet.“I just went about my business and got on my bike,” he said.After that, Mr Dill said he would occasionally bump into Mr Robinson as he worked with his mother. “Me and Randy wasn’t best friends. We weren’t boys or nothing, but we was cool.”On the day of the murder, Mr Dill told the court he agreed to go with Mr Hewey to the Mid Ocean Boat Club.He said he went to St Monica’s Road, spoke with friends, and then rode to his father’s house but no-one was home. He then drove to his cousin’s house, where he watched TV for a short while before returning to St Monica’s Road looking for Mr Hewey.Mr Dill eventually found Mr Hewey at a friend’s house on North Shore Road in Devonshire. They drove to the boat club on separate motorcycles, arriving at around 8pm.After having a drink and smoking some cannabis outside, Mr Dill said he received a BlackBerry message asking him about a shooting. A short while later a woman who worked at the club told him to be careful because someone had been shot.He and Mr Hewey then left the bar and went straight to Mr Hewey’s house where they smoked more cannabis, Mr Dill said. He later decided to sleep at Mr Hewey’s house when it began to rain.Mr Dill denied being a member of any gang.“I ain’t into this gang activity and all that. I look at it as pointless but I do hang out with people who are into it.”He was shown several pictures of himself with alleged gang members whom he identified as friends he knew from school or from the neighbourhoods where he grew up flashing various gang signs.Questioned about the gestures, he said: “All it [means] is what neighbourhood you come from. That’s all. I put it on my bike, my scrambler, when I was young. It was not to say I was in a gang or nothing.”The trial is set to continue today.