When Richard Grant was on his way to work yesterday morning and saw an area cordoned off by police at Welches Beach, Christ Church, he had no idea that his youngest brother was the cause.
Grant said he saw the police but thought nothing of it until he got to work at the Transport Board and received a call from officers at Oistins Police Station stating that the body of his unemployed brother, 28-year-old Jason McCarter, had been found on the beach.
Shaking his head in disbelief, he said the whole thing had him “offset” and his head had not stopped pounding since he got the news.
Grant had to lend support to his sister Krystle Grant who struggled to come to grips with her younger brother’s death.
Krystle held back the tears long enough to say she would always love him. Then with tears streaming down her face, she spoke of her brother with whom she was very close.
“I am so hurt and so sad,” she said. “I cannot believe that my brother gone.”
Krystle said her mother died when she was young, she had to bury her father almost two years ago, and the ordeal of having to identify her brother’s body was even harder to cope with.
Other relatives who gathered at the Parish Land, Christ Church home said Jason was a “cool, kind and loving young man” who was always willing to help out and who would give away his last and do without.
Sharon Grant, a cousin, said she last saw him on Monday around 7 p.m. when he said he was going to Greenfield by his stepmother. The family said they would have to await the autopsy report to find out how he met his death.