THE body of 22-year-old, Kenisha Schroeder was retrieved from the Demerara River Monday evening after she had reportedly walked into the river Old Year’s Day.

According to reports, the incident occurred around 16:30hrs on Sunday. Residents recalled seeing Schroeder of 12 Gardener Street, Wismar, Linden, walking down the Titanic boat landing on the Mackenzie shore where she walked into the river and “disappeared” from sight. A report was subsequently made to the Mackenzie Police Station.

She was believed to be of unsound mind.

Her body was discovered by police and residents at the Omai Landing, Wismar at about 21:00hrs on Monday. Police say no foul play has been suspected and are awaiting the results of a post mortem examination.

The mother of one grew up with her grandparents, Euwhart Cameron and Olive Cameron who were in shock when they received the devastating news on Sunday morning. “We didn’t accept it as so, we were hoping that it wasn’t so, we were hoping that it was somebody else or maybe she went into the water, bathe and come out and nobody saw,” Mrs. Cameron told Guyana Chronicle.

Mrs. Cameron, told this newspaper that she is not certain if her granddaughter had committed suicide or not, stating, “I am not certain if she committed suicide because what we understood is that she was going to bathe and apparently like she go too far and she slip.”

Mrs. Cameron described her granddaughter as a nice, bold, outgoing and kind hearted young woman. She recalled, “Sometime when you wake up in the morning she say, granny, grandfather good morning, did you have a good night rest and duh kind of thing.”

Schroeder would have been 23 on January 27, 2018 and leaves to mourn her 3-year-old son, Kayden Schroeder, her grandparents, family and friends.

“When you look at it, there is a pain and a sadness in your heart to know that you mind her from 10 months old to bring her to this stage and to see her, you expected you to go and leave her, we never expected her to die before us, so it’s very painful,” expressed her grandmother.