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DOCTORS at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) were late yesterday battling to save the life of a 13-year-old school boy stabbed in the back during an altercation with another boy at school. Shane Hackett 13, a Form 2 student of Dolphin Government Secondary, Charlestown, was rushed to the Accident and Emergency Unit at the hospital shortly after 12:00hrs, with multiple stab wounds in his back.
On being examined and X-rayed, doctors determined that he had suffered a punctured left lung, his aunt, Donna Marshall, told this newspaper. He was accompanied to hospital by his class teacher and another from the school.
Hackett said her nephew was bleeding profusely and his condition was listed as critical.
Meanwhile, his assailant is said to have fled, and the police were yesterday afternoon searching for him.
Shane’s distraught aunt Donna and uncle Mario Hackett told this newspaper that Shane and the other boy, Lorenzo, had had a misunderstanding since last week. It stemmed from Lorenzo making an uncomplimentary remark about Shane’s mother. Shane did not take the pun kindly and an argument broke out.
Trouble sparked again shortly after noon yesterday, when the two boys were leaving the school compound.
The woman was told that Lorenzo pushed Shane, and Shane, in order to avoid a confrontation, said, “Boy, humble yourself,” and turned away.
It was then that Lorenzo stabbed him in the back with a pair of scissors. Donna said she learnt that the teen repeatedly stabbed Shane in the back, even after he had fallen to the ground, then ran away as persons began running to the scene.
Shane is the first of three children for his parents, Bernard and Naiomi Hackett of Public Road, La Penitence. He lives with his grandmother, Olive Hackett. Donna, who said that the grandmother had taken the report badly, and was hysterical, also recalled that the child’s father, who works as a gold miner in the Cuyuni, was home for the Christmas holidays and had returned to the interior last Friday. Late last night, they were trying to contact him by radio.
On being examined and X-rayed, doctors determined that he had suffered a punctured left lung, his aunt, Donna Marshall, told this newspaper. He was accompanied to hospital by his class teacher and another from the school.
Hackett said her nephew was bleeding profusely and his condition was listed as critical.
Meanwhile, his assailant is said to have fled, and the police were yesterday afternoon searching for him.
Shane’s distraught aunt Donna and uncle Mario Hackett told this newspaper that Shane and the other boy, Lorenzo, had had a misunderstanding since last week. It stemmed from Lorenzo making an uncomplimentary remark about Shane’s mother. Shane did not take the pun kindly and an argument broke out.
Trouble sparked again shortly after noon yesterday, when the two boys were leaving the school compound.
The woman was told that Lorenzo pushed Shane, and Shane, in order to avoid a confrontation, said, “Boy, humble yourself,” and turned away.
It was then that Lorenzo stabbed him in the back with a pair of scissors. Donna said she learnt that the teen repeatedly stabbed Shane in the back, even after he had fallen to the ground, then ran away as persons began running to the scene.
Shane is the first of three children for his parents, Bernard and Naiomi Hackett of Public Road, La Penitence. He lives with his grandmother, Olive Hackett. Donna, who said that the grandmother had taken the report badly, and was hysterical, also recalled that the child’s father, who works as a gold miner in the Cuyuni, was home for the Christmas holidays and had returned to the interior last Friday. Late last night, they were trying to contact him by radio.
