By PAVEL BAILEY

Tribune Staff Reporter

pbailey@tribunemedia.net

A MAN was denied bail yesterday after being charged with the 2021 murder of a man in Pinewood Gardens in what prosecutors said was retaliation for the alleged assault of his mother.

Adari Wright, 28, was denied bail for his alleged role in the January 3, 2021, shooting death of D’Andre Thompson, who was killed in his car.

During Wright’s bail hearing before Justice Franklyn Williams, it was revealed that the defendant’s girlfriend identified him as the shooter, saying she witnessed both the killing and the preceding assault involving the defendant, his mother and the deceased.

Prosecutors further allege that Wright, while armed with a handgun, attempted to rob a woman of her 2010 Nissan Murano in the parking lot of Sapodilla Restaurant on May 22, 2023.

The complainant reportedly escaped and alerted police. Wright is accused of firing at two officers as they pursued him in their patrol car before he was detained.

He is awaiting trial on charges of murder, attempted armed robbery, possession of an unlicensed firearm, possession of ammunition and two counts of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.

Justice Williams noted that Wright committed the attempted robbery while already on bail for murder. He denied bail, ruling that Wright posed both a flight risk and a danger to public safety and that no conditions could sufficiently mitigate those risks.

Wright’s murder trial is scheduled to begin on October 6 before Justice Jeanine Weech-Gomez.

Alex Dorsett represented the accused, while Janet Munnings prosecuted the case.