MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Patrick Thompson, the licensed firearm holder who is accused of killing two women and injuring three others last month, was further remanded when he made his second court appearance in the Manchester Parish Court on Wednesday.

A bail application for Thompson was deferred due to a request for raw CCTV footage of the February 23 incident.

Presiding judge Monique Harrison remanded Thompson to return to court on April 2 when the bail application is expected to be made by his attorneys Peter Champagnie KC and Samoi Campbell.

Champagnie told journalists that the defence is awaiting CCTV footage and that his client maintains that he acted in self defence.

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Thompson, otherwise called ‘Big T or Thommo,’ an engineer of Levy Lane in Manchester, is charged with two counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder, two counts of wounding with intent, two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, two counts of assault at common law, two counts of possession of firearm and ammunition with intent to commit injury, and using a firearm to commit a felony following the incident on Levy Lane on Sunday, February 23.

Those killed are 42-year-old Stacy-Ann Mulgrave of Barnstable District, Manchester, and 46-year-old Ann-Marie Hanson of Caledonia Road in the parish.

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A police report said about midnight, Thompson was at a candlelight vigil when he and a man got into an argument over a motor vehicle accident. The argument escalated, causing a crowd. It is alleged that Thompson, who is a licensed firearms holder, opened gunfire at the crowd, hitting multiple persons before leaving the area. The injured persons were assisted to the hospital, where Mulgrave and Hanson were pronounced dead and the others admitted for treatment.

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— Kasey Williams