Former wanted man acquitted of murder

NASSAU- A Supreme Court jury has found Jamal Wallace not guilty of murder.

Prosecutors said Remo Fox was able to identify Wallace as his killer before he died on August 5, 2013.

Fox allegedly made a dying declaration to his wife and a policeman before doctors rushed him into surgery.

A witness to the shooting said the gunman had braids in his hair.

Wallace remained on the country’s Most Wanted List for almost four years before he was arrested in Tampa, Florida in May 2017.

Wallace was charged with Fox’s murder following his deportation to The Bahamas in July 2017.

At trial, Wallace’s lawyer Lennox Coleby questioned the likelihood that Fox named his killer before he died, as bullets had damaged his lung and diaphragm.

Coleby also called several men who did security work with Wallace at a hotel as witnesses.

They testified that in 2013 Wallace did not have cornrows because it was a banned hairstyle at their workplace.

The jury returned a majority acquittal of 8-1.

Jacklyn Burrows prosecuted the case, which was presided over by Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson.