Two suspects are now in custody as investigations continue into the murder of a 16-year-old Convent Garden Secondary School student.
Police A Division (Georgetown- East Bank) Commander Marlon Chapman on Tuesday told Guyana Times that the suspects were being interrogated with respect to the murder.
The dead teen, Brian Charles Yearwood, of Lot 69 Grove Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD) was fatally stabbed in the region of his chest, allegedly by a 17-year-old resident of Kaneville, EBD.
Dead: Brian Yearwood
The incident occurred in the compound of the Covent Garden Nursery School, EBD, after the lad had gone to attend a concert at the Covent Garden Secondary School.
Initial Police reports had disclosed that a policeman who had attended the concert with a relative responded immediately to the incident, and with the assistance of other persons, had rushed Yearwood to the Diamond hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The body is said to be at the Lyken Funeral Parlour awaiting a post-mortem examination. Guyana Times was told that Police recovered the suspected murder weapon at the home of one of the suspects.
When this publication visited the dead boy’s family, his grieving mother, Beverley, related that she was told that her son was sitting on a bench with a few other boys, and another group of boys sitting opposite them were teasing them. She said that the boys with whom Brian was sitting subsequently got up and moved away, but Brian remained.
Upon seeing Brian alone, the mother added, the other group of boys went over to his bench and began teasing him as well. She added that she was not told exactly what happened after – whether or not her son had retaliated and angered the group of boys. She then claimed that the group began pelting him with bottles and so he escaped.
“He got away from them and run up to the guard hut. There were some teachers standing there, so he run and he stop in front of the teachers, maybe he was thinking that he was safe. But in the presence of the teachers, these boys just run up and one of them stab him. He plunge the knife into my son’s heart and pull it out. Brian then run from there and he fall down at the fence,” the grieving mother informed this publication.
Yearwood was a former Central High School student and had only transferred to the Covent Garden Secondary School in September last year.
