A state witness yesterday testified to seeing the man on trial for murdering her brother-in-law holding a gun seconds before he was shot dead in Fyzabad in 2015.
Rhonda Carter was the 12th witness in the murder trial against Makesi “Kid” Felix, which began on Tuesday before Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hinds at the Princes Town Family Court and District Court.
Police arrested Felix on July 18, 2016, in Marabella and subsequently charged him with the murder of Rodney Gloud. Gloud was shot at 4.15 pm on April 29, 2015, at the back of his relatives’ home at Delhi Road, Fyzabad.
He died at the Siparia Health Facility.
Carter recalled that on the day, she was at home with her husband Allister Gloud, her son and now deceased mother-in-law. She said the victim lived on a hill at the back of their house.
She said she was in the kitchen washing dishes, while her husband, Gloud and another man were at the side of her home.
Carter said she then saw Gloud talking to his wife, then her husband came running into the house and she locked the door.
She returned to the window and saw Kid “speed walk” past with a gun “slightly pointing outwards,” and Gloud running to the back of the house. She recalled hearing six or seven shots.
When the shooting stopped, she said her husband went outside and after five seconds she followed him. She saw her husband standing over her brother-in-law, who was bleeding on the ground. He was rendering aid along with a friend, David. They then lifted and carried him to the car.
She said on July 21, 2016, she identified Kid during an identification parade at the San Fernando Police Station.
Carter’s husband gave evidence on Tuesday and was cross-examined yesterday.
In cross-examination by defence attorney Michelle Ali, he rejected her suggestion that the reason why his first description of the shooter did not match the accused was because he was not the person who shot his brother.
“No ma’am, I saw Makesi,” he replied.
He also denied that he got rid of a Marvin Gaye hat and a bullet fragment from his brother’s neck.
Ali and Shaun Morris, from the Public Defenders Department, represented Felix, while attorneys Charmaine Samuel and Gilliana Guy prosecuted for the State.
