A witness told the Supreme Court that he warned friends in the Deepdale area about two figures in black on a motorcycle shortly before a fatal shooting.

The witness, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said that on November 3, 2017, he went to the One Way Deepdale area of Pembroke to socialise with friends including Morlan Steede, the shooting victim.

“A little drink, a little cards, a little dominoes,” he said. “It was a regular Friday night.”

The witness said at some point during the evening, Kiari Tucker, the accused, visited the area, but left a short while later.

“I cannot tell you how long, but it wasn’t long,” he said. “He hailed up everybody. That was about it.”

As the evening progressed, the witness said he got in his car and began to drive home, but as he drove he noticed two people on a motorcycle dressed in black with black helmets.

He said that he found the pair “suspicious” and made a WhatsApp call to a friend in the Deepdale area.

“I told everyone to watch out for themselves and that was about it,” he said.

When he arrived home, he received a call from a friend telling him about gunshots in the area.

Mr Tucker, 27, has denied the November 3, 2017, murder of Mr Steede, 35, along with the use of a firearm to commit an indictable offence.

CCTV footage previously shown during the trial showed a man in a white shirt running down One Way Deepdale followed by a person in all black at about 9.40pm.

As they ran, flashes of light were seen to come from the outstretched arm of the person in black.

The two men turned on to Two Way Deepdale and then on to Parsons Road, where they disappeared from view.

As the trial continued yesterday, Pc Che Young told the court that he was on mobile patrol with the Armed Response Unit at 9.42pm that day when he was dispatched to a suspected firearms incident in the Deepdale area.

He said as he and another officer drove down One Way Deepdale, he noticed a number of people running down the road towards the junction with Two Way Deepdale.

“We followed those people, turned right on Two Way and made our way to the junction of Two Way and Parson’s Road,” he said.

“At the junction, we observed a large crowd of people, so we stepped out of our vehicle and approached the crowd. Among the crowd we observed a male laying on the ground and an off-duty police officer who I recognised was giving him CPR.”

Mr Young said that while the man was already receiving assistance, the crowd was “aggravated and uncooperative”, so he focused on crowd control.

He said he subsequently walked down Two Way and One Way Deepdale, where he discovered several spent shell casings.

Mr Young said the following day he was among several armed officers who took part in a search of a Warwick apartment identified as Mr Tucker’s last-known address.

He said that after they arrived, the officers identified themselves and called on anyone inside the apartment to make themselves known.

Mr Young said a man and a woman came out of the apartment before the officers entered and began a search, identifying themselves before entering each room.

“It was a search to identify someone,” he said. “We weren’t rummaging through anything. We were just trying to identify someone.”

He said that when the officers came to the final bedroom, they found a closed closet door and, after again urging anyone inside to make themselves known, opened the door.

“When opening the door, I could not see anyone inside,” Mr Young said. “However, there was a chest of drawers there about waist height. Between the dresser and the wall was a pile of what looked like dirty clothing to me.

“I brushed off some of the clothing and, underneath, I identified Kiari Tucker.”

He said he pulled Mr Tucker out of the closet by his forearm and handcuffed him before taking him out of the apartment by his elbow and handing him over to officers with the Serious Crime Unit.

The trial continues.

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