Jury Finds All Defendants Guilty in Centennial Towers Attempted Murder Trial

By Alric Lindsay

A Grand Court jury today, November 13, 2026, returned guilty verdicts against all defendants standing trial in connection with the February 2025 firearm ambush outside the Subway restaurant at Centennial Towers in West Bay.

Following weeks of intense legal sparring, forensic challenges, and blistering cross-examinations before the Hon. Justice Emma Peters, jurors rejected the defences raised by the accused men—Jamie Ebanks, Jared Marvin Johnson (also known as “Bubbles”), Austin Kempton Crawford, and Dabian Ebanks—convicting them of executing a coordinated, retaliatory shooting plot.

The Indictment and Verdicts

The four men stood indicted on a four-count indictment brought by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, led by Edmund Vickers KC and Emma Rance:

• Counts 1 and 2: The attempted murder of Jiffon Robinson and Denver Bright.
• Counts 3 and 4: Possession of two unlicensed handguns with intent to endanger life.

By returning guilty verdicts across the board, the jury accepted the Crown’s central thesis that the midnight shooting was a calculated “team effort” to exact violent street justice.

Background: A Retaliatory Ambush in West Bay

The prosecution’s case traced the origins of the shooting back to a brutal altercation in December 2024 outside the Jungle Bar in West Bay, during which defendant Jamie Ebanks was reportedly stabbed 17 times. The targets of the Centennial Towers shooting, Jiffon Robinson and Denver Bright, had been arrested and formally charged in connection with that stabbing and are slated to face their own joint criminal trial in January 2027.

According to evidence presented during the trial, the ambush unfolded in the early hours of Saturday, February 22, 2025:

• Spotting the Targets: Austin Crawford drove from Kelly’s Bar to Centennial Towers, entering the Subway restaurant. Upon exiting, Crawford walked directly past Robinson and Bright as they arrived at the eatery.
• Mobilizing the Convoy: Prosecutors demonstrated that Crawford immediately returned to Kelly’s Bar in under two minutes to alert the group. By 1:44 am, a three-vehicle convoy rolled out toward Centennial Towers.
• The Shooting: Around 2:00 am, two gunmen approached the Centennial Towers parking lot on foot from the direction of Boggy Sands and unleashed a hail of at least six shots toward Robinson and Bright. Bullets shattered the Subway storefront and struck the targets’ vehicle. Although shaken, Robinson and Bright escaped uninjured and drove their damaged car straight to the West Bay Police Station.
• Police Interception: Shortly after the gunfire, a Royal Cayman Islands Firearms Response Unit intercepted the black Honda Fit along Finch Drive in West Bay, arresting its occupants.

The Battle Over Star Immunity Witness Jimmall Facey

A central battleground throughout the trial was the credibility of Jimmall Facey, an original primary suspect who flipped and secured an absolute immunity agreement from the Director of Public Prosecutions in exchange for testifying as King’s Evidence.

Testifying from behind a protective screen, Facey gave a frame-by-frame account of the hit team’s mobilization, detailing lookouts positioned behind green pharmacy transformer boxes, getaway routes, and an immediate post-shooting cover-up involving burning clothes in a backyard and using rubbing alcohol to remove gunshot residue. Facey also told the court that Jamie Ebanks praised the shooters for doing a “good job” and immediately named their next intended target, while later testifying that someone had tried to burn him in his prison cell at HMP Northward in an effort to silence him.

Throughout late October and early November, a formidable team of King’s Counsel—including Brendon Kelly KC (representing Jamie Ebanks), Anand Beharrylal KC (representing Jared Johnson), Rhiannon Sara Crimmins KC, and George Carter-Stephenson KC—subjected Facey and senior RCIPS investigators to a relentless forensic cross-examination:

• Defence advocates accused Facey of fabricating accounts, wiping his phone, and tricking his way into an immunity deal.
• Defence teams also grilled Detective Inspector Joseph Wright and Detective Inspector Dave Barnett over gaps in CCTV coverage, uninterviewed bystanders, and Facey’s shifting statements regarding the origin of the firearms and the occupants of the Honda Odyssey.
• During testimony on November 3, DI Barnett conceded under oath that he did not rely on Facey’s shifting word to build the prosecution file, stating instead: “I did not rely on Facey’s account. My investigation relied on the facts I could prove.”

What Happens Next

Despite the defence’s sustained assault on the reliability of the Crown’s immunity witness, the jury concluded that the combined weight of the CCTV timeline, vehicle movements, police interceptions, and witness testimony proved each defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Following today’s guilty verdicts, Justice Emma Peters remanded the convicted men into custody ahead of sentencing. A sentencing date will be set following the preparation of social inquiry and antecedent reports.