Barbara Gayle, Staff ReporterTHE POLICEMAN who fatally shot Orane Williams, a 12-year-old John Mills Primary School student, in downtown Kingston two years ago has been freed of a manslaughter charge.
He is 24-year-old Special Constable Gary Nunes who told the seven-member jury the shooting was accidental.
Defence lawyer Peter Champagnie, in his address to the jurors, asked them to bear in mind the evidence given under cross-examination by ballistics expert Inspector Harry Singh.
NO SAFETY DEVICE
He had testified that the .38 revolver which Special Constable Nunes had at the time of the incident could discharge bullets accidentally because it did not have a safety device.
Special Constable Nunes who had four months in the police force at the time of the incident went on trial in the Home Circuit Court Thursday.
The Crown led evidence before Justice Raymond King and the jury that on March 5, 2003, the boy was on his way home from school when he was fatally shot at South Parade, downtown Kingston.
The police had reported at the time that the police were chasing a robber and, during the process of apprehending the suspect, gunshots were fired and the boy was shot.
