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PAGE 6THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, JUNE 30,2004 www.durhamregion.com Undercover cops gained suspect's trust UNDERCOVER from page 1 was murdered to prevent him from testifying testifying against Mr. Jacobson, who was charged with a home invasion robber)' that happened in Pickering in June 2000. Tire officer was one of three Durham cops who heard Mr. Hall describe the night Mr. Jones was chased down, shot and left to die on Pickering Beach Road, steps from his home. The case is being heard by Superior Court Justice Donald Ferguson and a jury of eight men and four women. While he distanced himself from the actual pulling of the trigger, Mr. Hall took credit for driving the getaway vehicle vehicle and for ensuring the gunman and two lookouts eluded police cruisers converging on the murder scene, the officer officer said under questioning by prosecutor prosecutor Paul Murray. The undercover cops moved into an apartment on the same floor as Mr. Hall in a Brantford building and quickly gained his tmst by passing themselves off as successful criminals, court has heard. The officer described how one night in July 2001, Mr. Hall talked at length about the plan to kill Mr. Jones, the murder itself and the fact that a gun and clothes that could connect anyone to the crime were disposed of. He told them Mr. Jones, a security guard, had seen one of the men involved involved in the home invasion robbery trying to use a stolen card in a bank machine machine and eventually became a Crown witness in the case. Mr. Hall said the killing was planned for three months and finally carried out one night as Mr. Jones, whom he did not name, approached approached his family's home in the new subdivision in south Ajax. The hunted man attempted to escape when he realized what was happening, the cop said Mr. Hall told them. "Sean said he was still running and got popped twice," the officer told the court. "Then one in his back." "The guy said, T've been hit! I've been hit!' But my boy caught up to him," the officer quoted Mr. Hall as saying. Mr. Hall said the gunman stood over the fallen Mr. Jones and "unloaded, (the weapon)" the officer testified. "Then Sean pointed his finger to the ground and (said) 'Pop, pop, pop,' " the officer told the court. Mr. Jacobson was not identified by name during Mr. Hall's descriptions of the killing or of the home invasion. During the conversations in the summer of 2001 Mr. Hall referred to the gunman gunman as "my boy" and told the officers the man was being held in the Whitby Jail. Court has heard Mr. Jacobson wound up in jail when a cousin revoked his bail surety in February 2001, days after Mr. Jones was slain. Mr. Hall went on to describe how he and others got rid of the gun and their clothes before fleeing to Niagara Falls to lie low after the killing, the officer testified. He also told them of how he got rid of the remaining ammunition -- hollow point .45-calibre bullets purchased in the United States - by throwing the rounds, one by one, into a lake, the of Friday night collision leaves woman in hospital CLARINGTON -- Durham Regional Regional Police traffic unit investigators continue to probe a collision Friday night near Enniskillen that has left a Mississauga woman in hospital with serious injuries. Police said a Dodge Ram pick-up was stopped facing eastbound in the westbound lane of Concession 8 near Solina Road around 10:50 p.m. Friday, when a westbound Ford Crown Victoria Victoria approached. The driver of the Ford swerved to avoid colliding with the truck but hit a woman who was outside it, police said. 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