Police reported that on Wednesday morning they discovered the lifeless body of a male person, who was wearing a grey undershirt, a pair of blue jeans pants and a pair of white tennis shoes, lying face down in an open lot off Dean Street at #12 Southern Foreshore. An examination revealed that he was shot in the back of the head. He may also have been beaten before he was shot, as there were some bruises on his face.

Police said that residents in the area, just a couple blocks away from where the mysterious murder of Sheldon Flowers took place almost fifteen years ago, reported that sometime before midnight on Tuesday they heard a single gunshot. A woman who resides in the back of the yard where Sherwin was found, said that sometime that night she heard a man moaning, but dismissed it and went to sleep.

Julia told the newspaper today that she received the news sometime before 9:00 on Wednesday morning, when her eldest son called her as she was in the midst of giving a lesson to her Standard 5 class, and informed her that they found a body they believed to be Sherwin?s in the Southern Foreshore area in an open lot.

Unlike many others who deny that their sons were misbehaving in any way, Julia, who saw her son for the last time sometime around 6:45 on Tuesday night, can say that she tried her best to discipline her child. She told us today that she is very angry and disturbed at the way the story was aired by a local television station, which said that Sherwin had many run-ins with the law. She said the police file photo was taken when her son was ?processed,? on her request, that he be placed in prison to shock him into the awareness as to what life on that side is like.

Julia said that what pains her is to know that she, an educator for 33 years, who exercises patience with other people?s children, going the extra mile, tried so hard with her son, and was not successful, even with those in authority who promised to help.

She said that she went to Nuri Muhammad from Youth For the Future, who promised to aid her, but when the time came he had other obligations.

?I spoke with G. Michael Reid, who came and picked me up from school and went to my house, where he, my husband, my son and I sat down to talk.

?I took him to Racoon Street Police Station, along with my husband, and we spoke with Assistant Superintendent Crispin Jeffries. I went to Magistrate?s Court and Family Court, where I requested counseling for Sherwin.

?There, I was assisted by Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie, who had him placed in an institution for about two months. When he was released, he did not change, and people began telling him that he was crazy because he was at the crazy house.

?I then recommended that he go to a psychiatrist, but he did not want to go.?

Julia said that if she can get to confront the person who shot her son, she would just let him know that she will leave everything to God. And as she prepares herself to bury her baby child, she said that she would not be at comfort until the many questions which form an incomplete puzzle in her mind are answered.

?Why was he shot? Who shot him? How is it that he left on a black beach cruiser and the police found him lying a couple feet away from a red beach cruiser? Did someone he knew lure him there and kill him?? are some of the questions Julia said are haunting her.

She then recalled the very jovial mood her son was in on Tuesday, the last time she saw him, when she got in late from a school meeting that day.

?He has never picked in clothes [from the line] for as long as I can recall, but when I came home on Tuesday, the clothes I had washed were picked in and neatly folded in the sofa chair. He had the house clean ? the kitchen, the hall and even more surprisingly, his room, which is always in a ?harum scarum? state. His bed was neatly spread and not a piece of dirt could be seen on his bedroom floor.?

She smiled as she recalled how happy he was that day. ?Before leaving, he asked me to please close the back door, as he was going to use that route. As we stood on the back verandah, he began kicking his tennis shoe on the heel. ?

?Granny buy this tennis fu me,? he said ?but ?e to big, a stuff di toe, but ?e still feel big.?

With those words, he smiled and said ?Ma, a gwen,? and that was the last time she saw him, said Julia.

A post-mortem is scheduled to take place this week, and until then the family has held off on funeral arrangements. It is certain, however, that funeral services for Sherwin Yarwood will be held 10:00 a.m. on Saturday at St. Mary?s Church.

Sherwin leaves behind his mother and father, Julia Yarwood nee Kingston and Stephen Yarwood, Sr.; his 4 sisters, Camille, Stephanie, Marcia, and Bridgette; his brother, Stephen; 3 uncles; 5 aunts and a host of other relatives and friends to mourn his death.