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East Ruimveldt teenager drowns near Kitty seawall
The body of an East Ruimveldt teenager washed up on the sands, near the Kitty Jetty area yesterday morning several hours after he reportedly went missing.
The deceased identified as Jerome Sturge, 16, of Lot 32 East Ruimveldt Front Road, Squatting Area was discovered at 8:30 hours, yesterday, after police and civilians conducted a meticulous search for his remains.
Jerome Sturge
Sturge purportedly drowned around 2 pm on Thursday.
“Jerome was washing clothes Thursday morning when two boys come and call he fuh go to the seawalls. He wasn’t suppose to go nowhere but he left de house with a red boom box and say he going on the seawalls with he friends dem.
“Till around 5 pm I hear that my brother probably drowned at Kitty,” his sister Crystal Sturge related.
After several hours of speculation about the teen’s whereabouts, his body surfaced.
“This morning police find he body in the sand at the Kitty seawalls opposite the 1823 National Monument. We ain’t know what happen but we hear that the two boys that went with him only tell somebody that my brother probably drowned about an hour after it actually happen…His boom box disappear and one of the boys was wearing his band at the station.”
However, Sturge said that she cannot recall her brother as having any major disagreements with anyone.
The boy’s mother, Margaret Persaud, said that she first learnt of her son’s disappearance from the jetty when a strange man came to her home with the devastating news.
“A man, who can’t even pronounce his name come and give we de news and that cause we to start looking for him since yesterday (Thursday).”
She said that her son frequently hung out with friends but would often return home at nightfall… I really don’t know what to say. I am a sick woman. When this news hit me this morning I was to go to clinic; I can’t even go no more. He would go out but he would always come back by night time. Jerome cannot swim and we don’t believe he drowned,”
Persaud said that Sturge, a former student of Carmel and David Rose Secondary Schools, spent most of his time with his brother-in-law who makes and sells puri.
“Dem used to mek and sell right in front me yard. He would help he brother-in-law grind up peas and so.”
The mother says that she was told that that her son was in the company of the two other teenagers when a high wave lashed him overboard. The boys reportedly lodged statements at the Kitty Police Station.
Persaud said that she recognized her son’s clothing, which was showed to her by ranks at the Kitty Police Station.
“All we got is left of him is he clothes and he bicycle, nothing more.”
A post mortem examination is expected to be performed on the body of Jerome Sturge on Monday.
He leaves to mourn his mother and five siblings.
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