KYLE Hepburn outside court. Photo: Terrel W Carey Sr/Tribune staff
By FARRAH JOHNSON
Tribune Staff Reporter
fjohnson@tribunemedia.net
A MAN who evaded arrest for two years by fleeing to the United States was arraigned in a Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with the murder of a taxi driver in 2018.
Kyle Hepburn, 32, was accused of attempting to rob and of killing Wilton Brown on June 9, 2018.
According to police reports, it was a Saturday night when Mr Brown pulled up to his Refuge Court home in the Hollywood Subdivision, off Cowpen Road, and a car pulled up behind him. An armed man got out of the car and demanded cash before shooting him and driving off.
Brown’s children were in his car at the time.
Police said Hepburn had fled to the United States sometime in 2018, but was deported back to the country on October 6.
During his hearing before Deputy Chief Magistrate Andrew Forbes yesterday, the accused was not required to enter a plea and the case was adjourned to December 8 for service of a voluntary bill of indictment (VBI).
Due to the nature of the charge, Hepburn was denied bail and remanded to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.
He has a right to apply to the Supreme Court for bail.
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