Two of four defendants facing trial for murder were associates of the East Side Crew, according to an expert on gang activity.

Sergeant Khalid Pitcher, an officer with the Bermuda Police Service’s gang targeting unit, said that material posted on social media showed Jukai Burgess and Nasaje Anderson making hand gestures and wearing symbols used by gang members.

Mr Burgess and Mr Anderson, along with QuaZori Brangman and Aaron Perinchief, are charged with the murder of Letrae Doeman.

Mr Doeman was the pillion passenger on a bike travelling through Flatts Village when he was shot ten times in the early hours of July 1, 2022. The driver of the bike, Natrae Eversley, was also shot but recovered from his injuries.

In court yesterday, the jury was shown a music video featuring the song Catch Me If You Can by Al Chewie.

The video, filmed in Bermuda, featured several young men singing the song while smoking, drinking, making hand gestures and riding bikes.

Questioned by prosecutor Adley Duncan, Mr Pitcher said that gang members used hand signals to identify with one another and show their loyalty to the group.

He said that those in the video were “throwing up ” an “E” hand symbol — a sign of the East Side Crew, which is based in St George’s Parish.

He said that the appearance of bikes in the video was significant because gangs preferred them for crime because they had greater acceleration than cars and were easier to handle.

Mr Pitcher added that most gang crimes were committed on stolen bikes.

Mr Pitcher pointed out that the number 297 appeared as graffiti on walls featured in the video. He said that the number was adopted by the East Side Crew because it is the three-digit prefix to landline telephone numbers in the East End.

Asked by Mr Duncan to identify anyone in the video, Mr Pitcher said that Mr Burgess and Mr Anderson appeared a number of times in the three-minute film, with both men “throwing E’s”.

A second music video — Made In The Field, by YB Traeful — was shown to the jury.

According to Mr Pitcher, the video featured members of Friswells Hill, a subgroup of the Parkside gang based in Pembroke.

Among those appearing in the video were Mr Doeman and Mr Eversley, who were filmed making “F” hand gestures.

Mr Pitcher said that police intelligence had discovered that tensions between Parkside and the rival East Side Crew developed in 2019 when one Parkside member moved to St George’s and switched his allegiances to the ESC.

Under cross-examination, Mr Pitcher accepted that he had not had any personal interactions with either Mr Anderson or Mr Burgess.

Earlier in yesterday’s proceedings, Jean Paul Rouget, who works a hustle by washing cars, was called as a prosecution witness.

Mr Rouget had arrived at the home of Mr Burgess on Rock Oven Lane in St David’s on the day of the shooting to wash a car.

Questioned by Cindy Clarke, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr Rouget said that he received a telephone call at about 2am — less than an hour after the murder had been committed — asking him to show up at the property that morning.

He said that he arrived at about 7.30am and had to wait for almost 90 minutes before a car pulled into the driveway. He said that Mr Burgess, Mr Anderson and Mr Brangman got out of the vehicle and went into the house.

He then started washing the vehicle as requested. Police arrived at the scene about ten minutes later.

Mr Rouget added that before police arrived, Mr Anderson returned to the car, removed a large trash bag from the rear of the vehicle and carried the bag over to some heavily overgrown wasteland.

On Wednesday, Detective Constable Warren Bundy, who was part of a police team that carried out a search of the property and surrounding area, testified that he found a trash bag at that location during the search.

The bag contained clothing that was later discovered to be contaminated by gunshot residue.

The court was shown additional CCTV evidence from the morning of the murder collected by Detective Sergeant Joanne Raposo.

The footage showed the motorcycle ridden by the suspects travelling over Flatts Bridge at about 1.09am and turning on to Harrington Sound Road.

About a minute later, the same camera recorded the victim travelling over the bridge towards Flatts Village, while the suspect’s motorcycle rode back towards the intersection of Middle Road and Harrington Sound Road.

At 1.10am, the victim’s motorcycle, which was travelling along North Shore Road, made an abrupt left turn and the two motorcycles approached each other near the “triangle” of the intersection.

It was then that a series of flashes could be seen, followed by the victim’s motorcycle dropping to the side with both Mr Doeman and Mr Eversley fleeing towards Brightside Guest House.

After the shooting, the suspects rode away from the area travelling west on North Shore Road. Shortly afterwards, several other vehicles, including a grey Kia Picanto, arrived at the scene.

A man got out of the vehicle, approached the small crowd around Mr Doeman and then returned to the car. The Kia Picanto left the scene at about 1.16am, with a marked police car arriving at about the same time.

Ms Raposo also showed the jury footage from Well Bottom, which she said showed a motorcycle matching the description of the suspect’s arriving with one rider on it at about 1.41am.

Minutes later, a grey Kia Picanto arrives in the area and the motorcycle is seen to follow the car down the road with its lights off.

The trial continues.

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