AS the police await legal advice, they were granted an extension to keep the two suspects in custody for the stabbing to death of 16-year-old Covent Garden Secondary School student, Brian Charles Yearwood.
It is alleged that the 17-year-old assailant, believed to be a school dropout, stabbed Yearwood in the region of the heart during a school concert on April 29, 2017. The police have recovered a knife, which is suspected to be the murder weapon. The teen was rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, but it was too late as he was pronounced dead on arrival. His mother, Beverly Yearwood, had told this newspaper that it was only last September that her son, who previously attended Central High, was transferred to the Covent Garden Secondary.
The mother of five said she is puzzled as to what could have caused the other teen to react the way he did, as her son was not known to be a trouble-maker. She had never received a bad report about him, she said; he was independent, hardworking and even helped around the house without having to be told, and without any fuss.