The two suspects who are in custody for the murder of a 16-year-old Covent Garden Secondary School student are scheduled to be arraigned in court on Monday.
According to the Police Public Relations Department, the two young men, respectively aged 17 and 20, have already been charged with the capital offence, and will be arraigned before a city magistrate at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Dead: Brian Yearwood
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.
The incident occurred in the compound of the Covent Garden Nursery School, EBD, where the lad had gone to attend a concert held by 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.
Investigators have since arrested the two suspects, who currently in custody. Guyana Times was told that police have recovered the suspected murder weapon at the home of one of the suspects.
When this publication visited the dead lad’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 was teasing them. She said the boys with whom Brian was sitting subsequently got up and moved away, but he remained seated.
Upon seeing him alone, the other group of boys went over to his bench and began teasing him as well. The mother said she was not told exactly what happened after – whether or not her son had retaliated and angered the group of boys — but the group allegedly 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 had been a former Central High School student, and had only transferred to the Covent Garden Secondary School in September last year.
