By LAMECH JOHNSON
Tribune Staff Reporter
ljohnson@tribunemedia.net
A MAN was remanded to Her Majesty’s Prison yesterday after being arraigned in connection with a recent murder.
Mark Augustine, 27, of Union Village was jeered by relatives of Jermaine Russell when entering the doors of the Magistrate’s Court complex on Nassau and South Streets to appear before Magistrate Saboula Swain.
He was not required to enter a plea concerning the fatal shooting of Russell on July 27.
It is claimed that he, by means of unlawful harm, intentionally caused the death of Russell, also known as “Timer”, on that day.
Russell was shot multiple times by a man armed with a handgun around 3am while walking to his vehicle from a nightclub on Apple and Peach Streets. He was pronounced dead five hours later.
Augustine, when asked by the magistrate, said he understood the charge.
“I don’t have the jurisdiction to grant you bail, but, of course, you may apply to the Supreme Court,” she told him.
The accused is now scheduled to reappear in Magistrate’s Court to have the case fast-tracked to the Supreme Court on October 16 through service of a Voluntary Bill of Indictment.
It is unclear at this time whether the case will attract the death penalty.
Commenting has been disabled for this item.