Judge orders investigation
into alleged police brutality
PHILIPSBURG--Judge Frank Wieland ordered an investigation into a case of alleged police brutality during Tuesday’s hearings in the Court of First Instance.
J.J.H. (19), who is accused of having shot and killed Kamar Lloyd Grayson (20) while he was fleeing from his attacker on A.Th. Illidge Road in Dutch Quarter on May 13, told the Judge during the hearing of his case that he had been brutalised and beaten by the police after he was arrested.
This statement was reason for Judge Wieland to order an investigation into this alleged police brutality, which he said should be carried out by federal detectives of the Landsrecherche.
Wieland said he vehemently opposed police brutality and stated that should this be proven in H.’s case it would have repercussions on the outcome of his trial. The hearing was suspended for a maximum of four months pending the outcome of the investigation.
H. told the judge he had been involved in a car accident when he was driving home from a party in French St. Martin around 4:00am that Saturday in May. He said he became angry when the driver of the car, Grayson, did not want to settle the damages or call the police, but instead dealt him a blow to his face with the butt of gun and took off in his car.
H. started to pursue Grayson in his car. Grayson lost control of the steering wheel during that chase and slammed his car into the wall around the house at #307. He left the car and started running, followed by H. More than 100 metres from the crash H. caught the man, after which they started a fight during which Grayson was shot with his own gun.
H. claimed he had not shot Grayson deliberately, but that the gun had gone off during the fight. Forensic research revealed that Grayson had not been shot from close range and that the bullet had entered his lungs and aorta diagonally, indicating that he had been shot from above.
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