Murder cases set for 2024 trial

Trials for three separate murder accused have been set to be heard in the No. 4 Supreme Court in the coming year.

Appearing before Madam Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell on Wednesday, Gabriel Shando Hayde pleaded not guilty to the February 16, 2020, shooting death of Kerwin Howell.

The 26-year-old resident of Colleton, St John, was given a fixed trial date of July 8, 2024.

Howell’s lifeless body was found in the Colleton community by police who responded to reports from residents of hearing multiple gunshots.

Meanwhile, the trial of 28-year-old Shawayne Deshawn Williams of White Hall, St  Michael, is set for May 22, 2024.

He denied killing Tavon Alleyne on December 26, Boxing Day of 2017.

According to the police report, Alleyne was walking through a track near his house when he was approached by a man who shot him multiple times before fleeing the scene.

During his arraignment, Ricardo Elwin Sealy of Cambridge, St Joseph, pleaded not guilty to murdering his brother Ryan Sealy on April 13, 2021.

His trial is set to begin on January 31, 2024.

The victim died from injuries at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital days after an alleged hammer attack.