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Murder weapon found in home of 20-year-old suspect
…as blame game continues in schoolboy death
A 17-year-old boy and his 20-year-old alleged “partner in crime” are pointing fingers at each other
Dead: Brian Charles Yearwood
in relation to the murder of Covent Garden Secondary School student, Brian Charles Yearwood, who was knifed to death in the school compound last Saturday.
Kaieteur News was informed that a knife, which is believed to be the murder weapon, was found in the home of the older murder suspect.
Investigators were informed that it was the 17-year-old Kaneville, East Bank Demerara (EBD) resident who murdered Yearwood while the killing was organized by the 20-year-old mason.
The two suspects are said to be from one gang, while the 16-year-old victim was a member of another gang. It was an ongoing feud between the two gangs that resulted in the stabbing death of the schoolboy.
“We had to ask for extensions to keep the two of them. Both of them will most likely be charged with the murder,” a police source pointed out.
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.
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