Cops apprehend suspect in Bourda Market murder

May 06, 2017 News

The cops have arrested the suspect in the murder of 40-year-old Jerome Cumberbatch, who was knifed to death on Thursday during a row at Bourda Market, Georgetown.
The suspected killer, who also did odd jobs like his victim, was arrested early yesterday after the police received information about his location.
Kaieteur News understands that the killing stemmed from a misunderstanding between the two men over a sum of money.
Cumberbatch, 40, of Lot 159 Half Mile, Wismar, Linden, was stabbed multiple times by the suspect before fleeing. He collapsed and died at the scene.
A sister of the destitute man said that her brother made a living picking up scrap metal.
Only last Sunday, 16-year-old Brian Charles Yearwood, was knifed to death in the Covent Garden Nursery School compound.
Reports are that the murder occurred after two teenage gangs clashed at a concert held at the school, where Yearwood was a student.
For the killing, a 17-year-old and a 20-year-old are in police custody. A knife, suspected to be the murder weapon was found at the home of the older suspect.
Yearwood was stabbed some time 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 were unaware 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 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 a 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 was not known to be a troublesome person and did not interfere with anyone.
Investigations are ongoing.

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