(Jamaica Observer) SCARLETT HALL, St Ann — Residents of the usually quiet community of Scarlett Hall in Runaway Bay, St Ann, were yesterday still trying to come to grips with the brutal murder of seven-year-old Delano Greenwood.
Delano’s body was found in bushes near his Scarlett Meadows home in the community, shortly after 2:00 pm Sunday with its throat slashed. His father and another relative stumbled upon his body when they went to search for him after he went missing.
Senior Superintendent of police in charge of St Ann, Carlton Wilson, told the Observer yesterday that a 13-year-old boy, who was taken into custody in relation to the incident, was questioned by investigators.
Police took the teen into custody Sunday afternoon shortly after the gruesome discovery. He was allegedly playing with Delano when he went missing.
“It hurts, it’s hard … I just can’t keep it back,” Delano’s father, Trevor Greenwood, told the Observer yesterday as tears streamed down his face.
“It’s hard to lose my baby that I have been working so hard and so long for… he has been with me since he was four years old,” said Greenwood, a musician.
“It’s like somebody has torn my heart out of my chest,” added the senior Greenland as he recalled how disciplined and well mannered his last child was.
Delano, he said, was involved in music.
