Shab Don’s Bail Application Postponed

Popular music producer Linval ‘Shab Don’ Thompson Jr, who is accused of murdering three persons in St James, will have to wait to see if his bail application will be granted as his case was postponed on Tuesday.

Attorney-at-law Donahue Martin told the court that he would wait until the case file was substantially completed before making the application when the case was mentioned in the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish court.

Further, Martin requested a copy of the scene-of-crime statement and a compact disc.

The attorney has maintained his client’s innocence throughout the proceedings, arguing that the claims are either malicious or erroneous in nature. The producer was ordered to return to court on August 22.

Shab Don is charged for the shooting deaths of 27-year-old Chadwell Frazer, otherwise called ‘Bomb Brain’ or ‘Chad’; 24-year-old Chamario ‘Chippy’ Calvin; and 26-year-old Toniann ‘Too Fly’ Reid.

They were shot dead at a birthday party on Marl Road in Rose Heights on May 25.

On June 3, 2022, Shab Don was taken into custody by the Joint Anti-Gang Task Force (JAGTF) in connection with the incident.

Shab Don has been shadowed in recent times by legal troubles.

He was freed of gun-related charges on April 7, however, he is accused of offering a police officer $2 million to get rid of an illegal gun in a case he had been previously charged with. He was charged with a breach of the Corruption Prevention Act, Section 14, Subsection 2, which is considered a greater offense than attempted bribery.

Thompson Jr is scheduled to go on trial on a bribery charge in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on November 28.

Specializing in Dancehall and Trap fusions, Shab Don Records, headed by Thompson Jr. and Carlos Clarke, initially formed as a production outfit for the Squash-led 6ixx group in Montego Bay and is best known for Vybz Kartel‘s Bad Mind and Any Weather, TeeJay‘s Henne & Weed and Shub Out, Squash’s Money Fever and Jahvillani‘s Nuh Rate Dem