Targets Of Alleged Attempted Murder At Centennial Towers Grilled In Court Over Previous Alleged Stabbing At Jungle Bar

By Alric Lindsay

The Grand Court trial of four men accused in the Centennial Towers shooting took a dramatic turn today as targeted victims Jiffon Robinson and Denver Bright faced cross-examination regarding an alleged revenge motive tied to an earlier blood feud.

Appearing before Justice Peters, both men recounted the moments they were ambushed outside a West Bay Subway restaurant on February 21, 2025, but repeatedly invoked their right against self-incrimination when pressed by defence counsel about their own upcoming attempted murder trials.

Taking the stand first, Jiffon Robinson described how a late-night food run quickly turned into a fight for survival. Robinson testified that he and Denver Bright had spent the evening visiting local bars before driving Bright’s black Honda vehicle to the Centennial Towers Subway at the 4-Way stop to order food to go. Upon returning to the vehicle, Robinson said he was looking for music on his phone when several gunshots suddenly hit the car was driving.

“I didn’t want to die,” Robinson told Prosecutor Edmund Vickers KC, describing how he and Bright scrambled out of the vehicle to hide behind structural concrete columns directly in front of Subway restaurant. Robinson noted that after the gunfire ceased, he saw two unidentified individuals running away from the adjacent J&M parking lot toward the seaside. Uninjured but shaken, the pair immediately drove the damaged vehicle straight to the West Bay Police Station.

The atmosphere in the courtroom intensified during cross-examination by defence attorney Brendan Kelly KC, who represents defendant Jamie Ebanks. The prosecution’s opening statement had previously framed the shooting as a coordinated “team effort” seeking street justice for a December 2024 incident where Jamie Ebanks was allegedly stabbed 17 times outside the Jungle Bar. Both Robinson and Bright were arrested for that attack and face their own joint trial in January 2027.

When Kelly KC confronted Robinson with details of the stabbing—including allegations that Robinson inflicted wounds across Ebanks’ torso and nearly severed his nose—Robinson repeatedly refused to answer on the grounds that it might incriminate him, following instructions given by Justice Peters that he didn’t have to answer anything that he thought may incriminate him. “I don’t want to answer that,” Robinson stated firmly throughout the grilling.

Denver Bright followed Robinson on the witness stand, corroborating much of the timeline. Bright testified that they spent roughly 30 to 45 minutes inside the crowded restaurant before returning to their car, where they heard about six gunshots.

Bright detailed a harrowing escape, explaining that bullet impacts hit the passenger door, the hood, and both the front and rear glass. Believing the shots were coming from the front of the vehicle, Bright crawled across the centre console to the driver’s side to escape, running to take cover behind a structural pillar. Under cross-examination by Kelly KC, Bright denied carrying a knife during a previous December 2024 altercation, claiming the entire incident was “a blur” and dismissing questions about his co-complainant’s alleged actions as irrelevant to the current case.

The afternoon session shifted focus to the terrifying environment inside the restaurant, with testimony from Subway night-shift employee Joseph Bainbridge. Bainbridge testified that he was standing by the cash register when a bullet hole instantly pierced the storefront glass.

While Bainbridge did not hear the initial cracks of the gunfire, he described the immediate impact inside the establishment, noting that the projectile ricocheted off the storefront window and slammed directly into a kitchen oven right next to where he was working. Bainbridge immediately hit the store’s panic button to alert law enforcement. Vickers KC presented photos from the jury bundle to the witness, and Bainbridge confirmed to the court that the visual ballistic marks from the bullet fragment are still present on the oven today.

The trial of Dabian Ebanks, Jamie Ebanks, Austin Crawford, and Jared Johnson is scheduled to resume on October 13, as the prosecution continues to call its witnesses.