Former murder accused now charged for death of GTI student

Former murder accused Keron Taylor was charged with murder in the death of Rawle Grannum, a student at the Guyana Technical Institute (GTI), on Friday after almost one year on the run.
The 28-year-old Charlestown, Georgetown resident was brought before Chief Magistrate (ag) Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
He was not required to plead to the indictable charge which stated that between September 30 and October 3, 2022, at Croal Street, Georgetown, he murdered 19-year-old Grannum.

This murder accused was remanded to prison until October 3 for report and disclosure.
According to the reports, Taylor and the other two accused, both juveniles, who were charged and remanded last year, reportedly confronted Grannum with a golf club, a hockey stick, and pieces of wood after he had allegedly assaulted Taylor’s cousin.
The incident occurred at around 15:00h on September 30, 2022, while Grannum was liming with friends at the Route 45 bus park in Georgetown.
He succumbed to his injuries a few days later in a private city hospital.
At the time of his demise, Grannum of Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara (WBD), was an Electrical Installation Level 2 student at GTI. An autopsy revealed that Grannum died as a result of blunt trauma to the head and a fractured skull.
After the young man’s death, the Police had issued a wanted bulletin for Taylor, who was only apprehended recently.

Back in 2020, Taylor was acquitted by a jury for the murder of 22-year-old Senassie Lewis following a trial at the Demerara High Court. He was accused of murdering Lewis on September 4, 2015, in front of the Ghetto Flex nightspot in Albouystown, Georgetown.
During his trial, he had maintained his innocence and was eventually freed after Justice Navindra Singh, who upheld a no-case submission made by Defence Counsel Nigel Hughes, directed the jury to return a formal not guilty verdict.
At the commencement of the trial, the main witness, who was identified as Troy Abrams, conveyed to Justice Singh that he could not remember what took place on the day of the murder. This prompted Hughes to make a no case submission.
Taylor, also called “Laro” had been charged for Lewis’s murder along with Clive Forde, called “El Sinkie”. Forde was, however, shot and killed after he escaped from the Lusignan Penitentiary in July 2017. On the day Forde was killed, members of the Joint Services had received information that the escapee was hiding out in a house in East Ruimveldt, Georgetown.
Acting on the information received, they surrounded the house and upon seeing the lawmen, Forde attempted to flee, but instead, he was fatally shot in the process. (G1)