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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Suspect held in connection with Fyzabad mom's murder

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SASCHA WILSON
1776 days ago
20201015
Tenile Cupid, 23-year-old mother of two children.

Tenile Cupid, 23-year-old mother of two children.

SASCHA WIL­SON

 

A 41-year-old man has been de­tained in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of Fyz­abad moth­er of two, Te­nile Cu­pid.

The sus­pect, a close male rel­a­tive, was ar­rest­ed by po­lice at his home in Fyz­abad, around mid­day on Wednes­day. 

The po­lice were told by rel­a­tives that they last saw Cu­pid with him on Mon­day night. 23-year-old Cu­pid re­port­ed­ly went with the man to get some­thing to eat on Mon­day night, around 10:20 pm; how­ev­er, she nev­er re­turned to her moth­er's home at Easy Street, Fyz­abad.

On Tues­day, her moth­er Nathalie Mon­zano re­port­ed her miss­ing to the po­lice af­ter calls to her cell-phone went unan­swered.

The WASA well site where Tenile Cupid’s body was found on Tuesday. (Image: RISHI RAGOONATH)

The WASA well site where Tenile Cupid’s body was found on Tuesday. (Image: RISHI RAGOONATH)

Lat­er that day, at about 3:15 pm, a WASA em­ploy­ee stum­bled up­on her body in a forest­ed area at Well #8 off Syn­cline Road, San­ta Flo­ra. She was nude and bore a wound to her head.

Te­nile Cu­pid had re­turned to her moth­er's home about three weeks ago af­ter she broke off a re­la­tion­ship. Though she nev­er com­plained of be­ing abused, rel­a­tives said they heard from oth­er peo­ple that she had been abused. 

Cu­pid was a CEPEP work­er and had two chil­dren, ages four and sev­en years.

An au­top­sy is ex­pect­ed to be done soon at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James.

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