Last Updated on September 30, 2022, 6:14 AM AST by Anthony Morris
Jamaica: An argument between two high school girls over a piece of gossip turned fatal on Thursday afternoon, leaving their schoolmates in shock. This incident has triggered a call for social workers to give more attention to children and their parents.
Michion Campbell, a grade 11 student of Kingston Technical High School, Jamaica was stabbed during a heated argument on the school compound.
The girl who stabbed Campbell (accused) was taken into police custody.
A student who was the classmate of the deceased, as well as the accused, informed the sources that the argument had started as “cussing”. However, the fight quickly spiralled out of control.
“Everybody was trying to hold the two of them. The girl retrieved the ratchet knife under her uniform and stabbed Michion Campbell.
“Another student was trying to resuscitate her while she was on the ground. I saw her take her last breath,” the student stated.
A different student said that she was at the school to do a diagnostic test to seek admission in the sixth form of the Kingston Technical High School, Jamaica. The student was traumatized after witnessing the tragedy.
“Dem start cuss over hearsay. (a piece of gossip) Both of them were using extremely wrong languages. After the test, which I was here to give, I heard the noise. Michion said to the other girl, stating that (the other girl) can do nothing to (Michion).
In the meantime, Michion’s friends told her to walk away and grabbed her hand, but she managed to get out of the grip and went up in the girl’s face. The (other) girl took out a knife and stabbed her in the neck and head.
A resident of the Rose Gardens community, in Jamaica where the school is located, expressed her anger about the incident. She said that many children nowadays are too vicious and display violent behaviour at the slightest provocation.
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