SPANISH TOWN:TWO STUDENTS of the José Marti Technical High School in St. Catherine were stabbed, one fatally, while travelling on a bus yesterday afternoon.
Dead is 17-year-old Yanese Hall, a fifth form student of a Binns Road address in Kingston. A male student, also of a Kingston address, is in the Spanish Town Hospital nursing injuries.
Reports reaching The Gleaner are that Hall boarded a coaster bus along with other students coming from school at about 3:00 p.m. Her attacker, a man described as being in his 30s, also boarded the bus and an altercation developed.
The man allegedly pulled a ratchet knife from his waist and stabbed Hall in sections of her body. She was stabbed in the left side of her chest as well as her neck. The male student intervened and was slashed on both hands. The man then jumped off the bus and escaped on foot.
'A VERY NICE PERSON'
At the Central Village Police Station, Hall's mother Donna Morris told The Gleaner that her daughter was 'a very nice person' who didn't deserve to have her life cut short. "I really don't know what happened," Ms. Morris said. "All me know is that a man kill me pickney."
Herbert Hall, who tried to hold back the tears, said that he tried to warn his daughter about her ways.
"Me see her with a man that bigger than her and me warn her," he said before he was overcome with tears. Mr. Hall said that Yanese is the second child that he lost in two years, having previously lost a son to pneumonia.
