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  • 11 months ago
The grandfather of a murdered Guapo man says while parents can teach a child right from wrong, they have no control over the lives their children choose to lead.

His grandson went missing on Monday and body found at a cemetery in Claxton Bay on Wednesday.

The victim, Curtland Wharwood, had served multiple prison sentences for robbery related offences.

Reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh was in Guapo on Thursday and tells us more.

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00:00At the age of 32, Kirtland Warwood had already been in jail three times for robbery offences,
00:07according to relatives.
00:09During the current state of emergency, police officers executed multiple searches on his
00:14Guapo Parrylands address, a home he shared with his 78-year-old grandfather.
00:20On Wednesday, Warwood's body was discovered with a gunshot wound to the head under a bandstand
00:25at the Diamond Cemetery in Claxton Bay, two days after he had gone missing.
00:31His grandfather says he last saw Kirtland when he entered a white car that picked him
00:35up in front their home around 7.30am on Monday, and a few hours later that day, his friends
00:42told relatives they received a video on their phone of his lifeless body, but no location
00:48was given.
00:49He says the police were contacted and their own searches began, but they didn't expect
01:07he would be found all the way in Claxton Bay days later.
01:11Investigators say the body was discovered by someone cleaning the cemetery around 6.45am
01:18on Wednesday.
01:19His grandfather says Kirtland never confided in him his whereabouts or what he was up to.
01:36In the last month, he says, police searched the home three times looking for firearms,
01:41as his grandson was a known criminal.
02:02Asked whether or not relatives tried advising or encouraging Kirtland to lead a straighter
02:08says countless times, but a child he believes will always end up doing what he wants to.
02:32He says young people should keep in mind that friends carry you, but they don't bring you
02:37back.
02:38Cindy Raghubar Tika Singh, TV6 News.
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