Relatives of 16-year-old Jerome Sturge yesterday said that his cause of death was given as blunt trauma to head and suffocation.
A post-mortem examination was performed on the teen’s body yesterday. According to Sturge’s sister Anita McIntyre, the police said they believed he was probably “fighting up in the water and hit he head.”
The body of Sturge was found on Friday on the Kitty seawall in the vicinity of the 1823 Monument after he had left his East Ruimveldt home on Thursday in the company of two friends.
His mother, Margaret Persaud had said that she last saw her son on Thursday morning and then that evening a stranger showed up enquiring about a boy from the area who had drowned.
