(CNS): Prosecutors presenting charges against Jashawn Owen Anthony Johnson (21) for the murder of Michael Aaron Bush (22) in the early morning hours of Christmas Eve 2020 have said that the young man intended to kill the victim and was not acting in self-defence. Candia James-Malcolm, the acting director of public prosecutions, told the court that the crown would show he had armed himself with a knife then deliberately sought Bush out following an argument outside a local bar. No reasonable person would have been provoked by such an altercation to act as he did, James said, as she opened the case against him this week.
Depending largely on high quality CCTV footage and corroborating witnesses, the prosecution’s case is that Johnson deliberately intended to kill or at least seriously injure Bush, who received a fatal stab wound to the heart at the Stand plaza parking lot close to the Casa Bar. The two men had engaged in a verbal…
