Jury shown phone records linked to murder defendants
A Supreme Court jury heard more about communications between four men charged with the murder of Latrae Doeman in 2022.
Lauren Bell, an intelligence analyst with the Bermuda Police Service, highlighted a series of phone calls and Snapchat message between phones linked to Aaron Perinchief, Jukai Burgess, QuaZori Brangman and Nasaje Anderson on the evening of June 30, 2022.
However, the communications appeared to halt at 11.11pm and did not resume until 1.23am on July 1 — about 13 minutes after Mr Doeman was killed.
Ms Bell told the court: “There’s frequent communication between Mr Perinchief and Mr Burgess, all of which is through Snapchat.
“There is no contact between Mr Perinchief and Mr Anderson prior to 1.33am — there was no contact until Mr Burgess sent Mr Perinchief the cellphone number. There is no contact between Mr Perinchief and Mr Brangman until 7.55am on July 1.
“There is contact between Mr Burgess and Mr Anderson, and that appeared to increase from June 29 onwards.
“There is contact between Mr Burgess and Mr Brangman on June 29, but no contact identified on June 30 or July 1. However, we never got the cellphones back from either of those two, so if there were communications between them through WhatsApp or Snapchat, I could not say.”
Mr Perinchief, Mr Burgess, Mr Brangman and Mr Anderson have denied charges of murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Mr Doeman, who was shot ten times in an early-morning attack in Flatts.
The defendants were arrested within a day of the shooting.
As the trial continued yesterday, the jury were shown additional images, videos and voice notes taken from Mr Perinchief’s phone.
In one voice note sent from Mr Perinchief’s phone on the morning after the shooting, a voice can be heard saying: “We guys are going to keep them going. Guys just need more tin.
“We keep them running. This is the best time to get them while they are on one leg.”
In a subsequent voice note sent from the same phone, a voice says: “We have got to keep the pressure on them. Now they are going to be thinking guys are sitting off, just lying down. Keep the pressure on.”
Meanwhile, records of the phone linked to Mr Burgess showed a phone call to Jean Paul Rouget shortly after 1.51am. Mr Rouget called back a few seconds later.
Mr Rouget previously told the court that he had been called at about 2am that day and asked to show up at a property on Rock Oven Lane in St David’s later that morning to wash a car.
The trial continues.
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