SHAR­LENE RAM­PER­SAD

Kezia Jane­ka Guer­ra died from mul­ti­ple stab and chop wounds.

An au­top­sy on the body of the 26-year-old San­ta Cruz woman was done on Mon­day at the Foren­sic Sci­ences Cen­tre.

Dr Parthasarathi Pra­manik found Guer­ra died from “mul­ti­ple stab/chop in­cise wounds caused by sharp force weapon.”

Guer­ra had been miss­ing for six days be­fore her body was dis­cov­ered in a shal­low grave near a riv­er off San­ta Babara Road in Mara­cas, St Joseph.

Yes­ter­day, Guer­ra’s aunt told Guardian Me­dia her niece’s fu­ner­al would be done on Fri­day.

Her aunt de­clined to make any oth­er com­ments.

Po­lice said their in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to Guer­ra’s death was ac­tive, al­though the main sus­pect had died from sui­cide at his home in Curepe the day af­ter Guer­ra was last seen.

The casi­no em­ploy­ee had left her boyfriend’s home in San­ta Cruz on Sat­ur­day, say­ing she was go­ing shop­ping with the man’s teenaged daugh­ter.

Lat­er that night, the man and two oth­ers were found parked along Acono Road.

Po­lice of­fi­cers who stopped to of­fer as­sis­tance to the trio found they were act­ing sus­pi­cious­ly and held all three for ques­tion­ing.

How­ev­er, the men were re­leased lat­er that night of­fi­cers con­firmed there were no re­ports against any of them at that time.

On Sun­day, the man was found dead at his home. Po­lice search­es of his home had turned up no sign that Guer­ra had been there.

Yes­ter­day, po­lice sources said the two oth­er men may be charged with of­fences re­lat­ing to Guer­ra’s mur­der.

Nei­ther was in cus­tody as they were both said to be quar­an­tined af­ter test­ing pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

PC Ali of the Homi­cide Bu­reau is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.