The spate of the unprecedented crime that is being noticed for the year has taken a turn for the worse with the stabbing to death of a secondary school student.
The incident which involved two students of the Wesley College at Queen's Park, St. George's took place on the enclosed school's compound, just outside the teachers' office.
Dead is 15-year old Ryhym Rodney from the Grand Anse Housing Scheme. His death is as a result of a single stab wound he received in the area of his chest by a fellow 14-year old student from Grand Mal, St. George's just before the end of the school day on May 29.
The accused male student has since been charged with causing the unlawful death of Rodney by unlawful harm. The youngster made his first court appearance on Monday before the Acting Chief Magistrate, Jerry Seales at the St. George's Number One Magistrate's Court.
In considering the bail application made by the defense counsel Derek Sylvester, Seales sought to get a clear understanding on what could have triggered the crime.
One of the investigators, Inspector Senneth Joseph said that based on evidence that the Police Investors at the Criminal Investigation Department gathered, the Grand Mal youngster was provoked by his school mate.
Joseph gave the court a brief description of what occurred on that fateful day. He said that Rodney allegedly locked the youngster's neck and managed to get him into the toilet facility where a fight ensued.
From the toilet, the two boys continued the fight in a classroom from where the Grand Mal resident escaped. Joseph said it was when the youngster escaped he allegedly committed the offence.
Seales placed the accused on bail in the sum of $50,000.00 and requested that the money be secured through title deeds by two sureties. The magistrate also implemented a 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. curfew on the youngster who is to remain between that period of time in his mother's care.
Should he breach the curfew, Seales said the Grand Mal resident will be placed on remand. The juvenile was ordered to report to the Central Police Station on the Carenage on Saturdays between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. and to surrender all travel documents.
The magistrate also cautioned the suspect against having contact with any of the witnesses in the case. The student is to return to court on June 27. The unfortunate incident has outraged a group of vendors at the vicinity of the school.
One vendor who did not want to be identified told GRENADA TODAY she became aware of the incident when she heard some of students making noise. "At the same time I rushed through Wesley College. When I got there I saw the child bleeding, I started to bawl for help," she said.
According to the vendor, she is rather disappointed that someone at the school did not take the initiative to rush the child to the hospital with the use of one of their personal vehicles rather than waiting for the ambulance.
She believes that by the time the ambulance came Rodney had already died. The vendor called for uniformed police officers to be placed on the school compound instead of security guards who are normally seen there.
This latest homicide has brought the number of manslaughter cases in Grenada for the year to two.
