JC student stabbed to death
A 15-year-old student was yesterday stabbed to death by another student at Jamaica College (JC), a prestigious all-boys school in Kingston.
The dead teenager was identified as Hartimon Golding, a fourth former.
According to the police, shortly after 11:00 yesterday morning Golding and another student were involved in an altercation during which a knife was used to stab Golding in the abdomen. He was taken to hospital where he died from his injuries. Classes were suspended for the rest of the day.
The police said yesterday that two JC students believed to be involved in the incident were taken into custody.
Yesterday, JC principal, Ruel Reid, described the youngster’s death as unfortunate. “We are really saddened by his death but Golding was not an angel,” Reid said, while displaying a collection of suspension letters that were issued to the boy’s parents earlier this year.
“We have spent a lot of money trying to get him on the right track in terms of counselling but he was certainly not one of the best behaving students,” Reid told the Observer.
According to the principal, the feud started last Friday at a bus stop when another student of the school threw a firecracker at Golding’s cousin who attends the Mona High School. Golding, Reid said, accosted the student at the school yesterday and started the fight that resulted in him being killed.
“According to the reports I received, another student gave the knife to the attacker which was used to stab him,” the principal said.
A student who said he witnessed the incident, said: “After him get the stab he ran up to the nurse’s office; them rap bandages around his belly but the bandage was soaked with blood cause him did a bleed heavy.
“Little bit after them carry him to hospital and then we hear the news that he died,” said the student.
Teachers and students who had gathered in the school yard after the fatal stabbing were in a sombre mood as the police and members of the media tried to get information about the tragic incident.
One student, who described Golding as a troubled but recovering student, said he was getting counselling and had just graduated from the Success Programme which is geared at helping troubled students.
“It really sad to hear that he died, that could have been one of us,” the youngster added.