Vybz Kartel co-accused Kahira Jones

Vybz Kartel co-accused, Kahira Jones, is facing a 2nd life sentence for a 2009 shooting incident.

Kahira Jones, who is a close friend Vybz Kartel, was i of the dancehall star'due south three co-conspirators who was convicted of murder in March 2014 and sent to prison for life. Jones is now facing some serious legal troubles of his own for a shooting incident that took place in Dec 2009. If convicted, he could exist given some other life judgement. His defense attorney, Kamika Harris, submitted a no-example filing in the Home Excursion Courtroom concluding calendar week, merely High Court Judge, Lisa Palmer-Hamilton, rejected the application, which means the case will go on as planned.

Get this, the trial, which is now going on for a calendar week, will proceed under the Section 31(D)A of the Prove Act, because the shooting victim, Chevallo Rodney, who survived the 2009 shooting, was killed two years ago.

Law enforcement reported that on Dec xv, 2009, Kahira Jones approached Rodney at his dwelling house in Waterford, St Catherine, the aforementioned area of Portmore where Vybz Kartel is from and asked him for some water to drink. The two men knew each other. Rodney told police that Jones pulled a gun to shoot him but a scuffle ensued and that's when he was shot twice. Luckily he survived the shooting and filed a police report.

Kahira Jones was later charged for the shooting but was out on bail when he was arrested once again in 2011 and charged for the murder of Clive "Lizard" Williams. In 2014, Vybz Kartel, existent proper name Adidja Palmer, Shawn "Storm" Campbell, Kahira Jones, and Andre St. John, were bedevilled for Williams killing. All iv men were sent to prison house for life, with Jones required to serve 30 years before being eligible for parole.

At that place is an entreatment now pending before the Court of Entreatment for that case which could see all four men walk free or remain behind bars. As for Kahira Jones' separate case earlier the courts, this calendar week he will exist taking the stand up in his defense. The prosecution will cross-examine him sometimes this week. Three law officers, i of whom is at present retired, testified confronting him in courtroom as the crown airtight its case last week Thursday.