In October of 2014, Umana was at the corner of New Road and Hydes Lane when a gunman killed him with a fatal shot in the center of the forehead. Police arrested and charged August, who was only 16 years-old at the time, with the crime of murder.

Since then, he had been on remand, until August 2018, when he became one of the few defendants accused with murder to be granted Supreme Court bail. He ended up violating the terms of that bail, because he was out his house during designated curfew hours ordered by the court. That bail was confiscated, and he was sent back to jail until his trial which began this month.

The prosecution, which was represented by Senior Crown Counsel Shanice Lovell, called their main witness. This was a man who gave police a written statement naming August as the shooter. This prosecution witness took the stand, and instead of accepting the details of his written statement from back in 2014, he told the court in a trial within this trial, that he did sign a statement 5 years ago, but it was a statement that police wrote, not him.

With that disavowal, the judge ruled that it could not be admitted into evidence.

Another prosecution witness was called, this was Umana's companion on the night that he was killed. He recounted for the court how the incident happened, but he could not provide identification evidence of the gunman. He told the court that he couldn't see the face of that shooter.