Two guns seized by police shortly after the murder of Shanrio Deveaux in 2013 have been linked to his death through ballistic testing, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.
While testifying at the murder trial of Judson Mackey and Tristan Deveaux, firearms examiner ASP Earl Thompson said that recovered cartridges were fired from two .40 pistols that were submitted for testing.
Mackey and Deveaux have denied the charge that they are jointly responsible for the May 25, 2013, shooting death of Deveaux at Strachan's Corner.
They are on trial before Justice Bernard Turner.
Police arrested the suspects less than an hour after the fatal shooting thanks to a tip from a 911 caller, who allegedly saw Deveaux with a gun. Acting on the information received from the tipster, police went to an abandoned building where they allegedly saw Deveaux drop a .40 pistol in the toilet.
That gun was retrieved and the suspects were taken into custody.
Police recovered a second gun on May 26.
An officer allegedly caught Mackey hiding the .40 pistol in a manhole in the cell block at the Central Detective Unit.
That gun was also recovered and the suspects were tested for gunshot residue.
Thompson said that both submitted weapons were in working condition and had fired the submitted cartridges.
Anthony Delaney is the prosecutor, and Roberto Reckley and Roger Gomez Jr. appear for the accused.

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