Schoolboy’s death linked to existing feud with teenage gang

May 02, 2017 News

As investigators continue to gather information relating to the death of 16-year-old Brian Charles Yearwood, it has been revealed that the murder occurred after two teenage gangs clashed at the Covent Garden Secondary School at

Murdered: Brian Charles Yearwood

East Bank Demerara.
It was reportedly an existing feud between the two gangs that escalated on Saturday night, and which resulted in Yearwood being knifed to death.
A 17-year-old school dropout from Kaneville, East Bank Demerara is among two persons in custody.
Kaieteur News was informed that it was the school dropout who stabbed the young man, while the act was planned by the other teen—in custody.
Yearwood was stabbed sometime after 20:00 hrs on Saturday after leaving his home at Lot 69 Grove Public Road, EBD to attend his school’s concert.
It was at the Covent Garden Secondary School that an argument started. Yearwood was stabbed in the Nursery School compound, a stone’s throw from the secondary school. The victim’s family has no idea that he might have been in a gang.
His grandmother, Veronica Yearwood said that she was sleeping when she heard loud crying in the lower flat of the house around 23:00hrs on Saturday.
”When I went down to check, I see his (deceased) mother crying and she say that Brian dead. I see one of his friends there and he said that someone stabbed Brian and he dead,” Yearwood revealed.
The woman said that they immediately rushed to the Diamond hospital to confirm whether the news they had received was true.
”When we went there, he was already dead. The friends them claiming that they didn’t see anything and one of them say all he know was that Brian was sitting, waiting on someone, when he see bottle start pelting,” the elderly woman said.
She further stressed that another friend claimed that he saw a crowd and when he went up, he saw the wounded teen. The grandmother said that relatives are unsure as to what really transpired that caused the 16-year-old to lose his life.
The woman explained that around 17:00hrs on Saturday, the teenager said that he was going to the concert and was taken to the venue by his father.
”He left home and went to the concert and the next thing we hear was that he was dead,” his grandmother lamented.
She said that the young man is not known to be a troublesome person and does not interfere with anyone.
Investigations are ongoing.