Latest update February 10th, 2025 5:14 AM
Gang fight on first day of school lands teenage boys in hospital
Oren Hinds
An ongoing feud between two 13-year-old boys ended yesterday with both of them in the hospital.
Tiery Prince, a St. George’s student of Lot 72 Bent Street, was stabbed with a broken bottle to his left hand while Oren Hinds, who attends Queenstown Secondary school, Sustained injury to his lip.
The fight occurred around 12:15 hrs in St. George’s Secondary School compound.
According Hinds, he and Prince came “way back” from primary school but became enemies over an incident which occurred sometime back. He did not state what the issue was about. The two teenagers reside in the same street.
Hinds explained that he went home from school to have lunch when his mother asked him to take lunch for his sister who attends the same school with Prince.
“When I drop my sister lunch and was leaving, I see he (Prince) and he come to me and knock off my hat. He push me and I push him back and then he cuff me and I cuff he back and one of his friend cuff me in my back and I burst a bottle and stab him (Prince),” Hinds stressed.
Meanwhile, Prince, who was treated at the GPHC and sent away, said that when he saw Hinds yesterday, he approached him to ask how he was doing.
“I just went to him and ask how he doing but he was vicious. He tell me, ‘Boy don’t talk to me…I ain’t in a good mood’ and then he push me and I push him back, and he cuff me and I cuff him back,” Prince stated.
He added, “The guard came and part us and I walk away and then he (Hinds) walk up to me and stabbed me.”
The teenagers were rushed to the hospital by a teacher from St. George’s Secondary School.
The matter is being investigated by social workers.
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