Agriculture Minister Testifies in Court Over 2013 Acadia Drive Shooting

St Andrew — Agriculture Minister Floyd Green told the Home Circuit Court yesterday that he considered his role in the 2013 Acadia Drive shooting incident complete after submitting an anonymous letter to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM). The testimony came during the ongoing murder trial of six police officers charged in connection with the deaths of Matthew Lee, Mark Allen, and Ucliffe Dyer.

Under cross-examination, Green explained that he sent the letter out of a sense of civic responsibility. When defence attorney Anthony Armstrong asked how the submission could be useful without including his name, address, or contact information, Green replied that he provided his observations for INDECOM to interpret as they saw fit. He added that, in his view, he had fulfilled his part and would not have taken further action unless INDECOM reached out to him nearly five years later.

Green acknowledged that the events were traumatic, rating his stress level at about seven out of ten. However, he maintained that the stress did not affect his recollection of what he observed. He described viewing the scene from an elevated position inside his home, noting that while it was not a street-level perspective, he believed it did not compromise his observations.

The minister confirmed that his partner joined him at the window shortly after he looked out and that both contributed to the letter sent to INDECOM. When questioned about details of the deceased, Green admitted that some observations, such as one man holding papers, were assumptions based on appearance. He reaffirmed, however, that police officers were pointing weapons at individuals on the scene.

Green also testified that he did not provide INDECOM with identifying descriptions of any of the officers and that he had not been shown photographs of the scene or given a chance to revisit the location before providing his statement. Some details included in his courtroom testimony, he said, had been recorded in the anonymous letter but not in his formal statement.

The minister could not recall certain specifics, such as the exact portion of a wall that a man in a red shirt jumped over or whether the vehicle he emerged from was tinted. He described seeing the man exit an Outlander vehicle with hands raised before fleeing and being chased by police, who fired at him.

The six officers on trial—Sergeant Simroy Mott, Corporal Donovan Fullerton, and Constables Andrew Smith, Sheldon Richards, Orandy Rose, and Richard Lynch—face murder charges stemming from the January 12, 2013, shooting along Acadia Drive. The trial resumed today.

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