By Ricardo Wells
Tribune Staff Reporter
rwells@tribunemedia.net
VIDEO surveillance captured inside and around the Backyard Restaurant, the scene of the 2014 police shooting death of Andrew Stubbs, shows the deceased being led out of the establishment and returning, seemingly armed, roughly 20 minutes later.
The evidence was submitted by Police Sergeant 1492 Dale Strachan yesterday at an inquest into Stubbs’ death.
He testified that on the night in question, he was directed to the Mutton Fish Drive and Sisal Road restaurant and bar, to download video content from the establishment’s 16-camera surveillance system onto a “forensically clean” thumb drive.
Sgt Strachan said he identified and downloaded several video clips captured on cameras four and five, and video captured from a camera marked ‘interior’.
He said the videos were later analysed to allow for police technicians to capture “still images”.
The various video files and images were later bundled and burned to a compact disc for later use.
That disc was presented before Coroner Jeanine Weech Gomez yesterday.
In the first clip, patrons at the establishment could be seen dancing and socialising inside the bar.
In the mid-left corner of the screen, described by Sgt Strachan as the north-east corner of the restaurant and bar, a man is seen involved in a dispute.
Moments into that dispute, the man is seen being guided to the exterior of the club by several people.
While on the outside, that same man, who was not identified by Sgt Strachan, is seen being directed off the property.
In a third video clip of the incident, a group of men can be seen gathered outside of the bar.
These men are all alerted by the presence of a man, walking near the entrance to the property.
Stubbs was fatally shot by Officer Kevin Deveaux in 2014.
He was reportedly led out of the establishment after being reprimanded for smoking a joint on the inside of the restaurant and bar.
Rovan Damian Carey, a police officer who testified in the case last week, said he escorted the deceased from the bar when he became disorderly.
He said once on the outside, Stubbs became even more unruly, ultimately leaving the properly altogether and returning roughly 20 minutes later with a firearm.
Officer Carey said after Stubbs left, he and several other officers stood around outside talking for about 20 minutes when someone in the group shouted “watch out”.
He said he then saw a man with an object that appeared to be a gun.
He said Officer Deveaux then shouted “police” and demanded the suspect drop the object. He testified he heard about five or six gunshots.
Another witness, a man who lived near the establishment and a neighbour of Stubbs, George Beneby, said he saw Stubbs “gesticulating” just in front of his home, 20 minutes before he heard about five or six gunshots.
Officer Deveaux is represented by K Melvin Munroe, while no lawyer represents the deceased nor his family.
Anishka Missick is marshalling the case.
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