Keon Williams Myvette’s murder trial now for manslaughter

Keon Williams myvett

In the Supreme Court meanwhile, a jury is deadlocked tonight and still deliberating the fate of Keon Williams Myvett who is accused in the shooting death of Michael Gladden. The jury emerged at two-fifty-seven this afternoon to seek clarification on possible verdicts that they could bring at the end of the trial.  After being directed by Judge Herbert Lord, they went back to consider the evidence.  Two and a half hours later, the jury announced their decision that Myvett is not guilty of murder, however Justice Lord instructed the jury to deliberate further on the lesser charge of Manslaughter.  This is Myvett’s second trial for the 2007 murder of Michael Gladden. At the first trial in 2009, he walked away free since a unanimous verdict could not be reached and a retrial was ordered.  On February twenty-eight, 2007, at just after one o’clock, Myvett and Gladden were involved in a brawl.  According to an eye witness, Elton Tingling, Myvett had a gun and he had threatened Gladden. Tingling also told the court that he headed to Lovely Lane to warn Gladden but when he arrived, he saw Myvett shoot and kill his brother.  In his defense, Myvett said he was not at the murder scene and that he was not the triggerman who took Gladden’s life. He claimed he was at his father’s home when the shooting took place.  The main witness at his first trial in 2009, Levi Brown, refused to testify in the re-trial this week allegedly because he feared his life was in danger. The prosecutor, Christelle Wilson, made a submission under the Amendment of the Indictable Procedure Act to have Brown’s statement admitted into evidence but Justice Lord ruled against it.  The only piece of evidence against Myvett was the caution statement that he allegedly gave the police in 2007 saying (quote) “All I am saying is that it was self defense.” (unquote).