Schoolboy stabbed to death after IntercolBy CECILY ASSON Sunday, October 25 2009
A 15-year-old schoolboy was stabbed and stoned to death by his attackers minutes after witnessing his school team, Central zone champs Carapichaima East Secondary go down 2-0 to Presentation College, San Fernando at a football game in Marabella on Friday evening.
Police said at about 7.45 pm on Friday, Darrion Callender-Duncan, a Form Three student of the Carapichaima East Secondary School had just made his way out of the Mannie Ramjohn Stadium, Marabella for home when, upon reaching a short distance from the stadium, he was attacked by a group of students of another secondary school.
One of the students, police said, whipped out a knife and stabbed Callender-Duncan in the chest. He was then pelted with bottles and stones as he attempted to flee his attackers.
Upon reaching in the vicinity of the Marabella Health Centre, Union Park East, Marabella, he stumbled and fell to the ground where he subsequently died, police said.
The body was viewed by the district medical officer and removed some five hours later to the mortuary of the San Fernando General Hospital to be later transferred to the Forensic Science Centre where a post mortem will take place tomorrow.
A team of police officers led by ASP Cecil Santana, Supt Clarence Boodram, Acting Insp Jagdeo and other officers visited the scene where a large crowd had gathered.
Friday’s game was a semi-final of the British Gas Trinidad and Tobago (BGTT) Schools Football League (SSFL) Big Five competition. Presentation College advanced to the finals.
Speaking to Newsday yesterday at her home in Midway Park, Freeport the teenager’s distraught mother Brenda Callender, 56, said she didn’t know what to make of the senseless murder. She told Newsday he was her only child.
She said, “It is not nice to see your child lying down on the street, all that blood on his chest, I don’t know what to say – I don’t know what caused it. He loved his school team, they were the champions and he supported them and would attend their games.”
She said her son was anxious to begin classes in reading and writing music.
“He had a love for music and dogs,” she said shaking her head in disbelief.
Callender, an administrative assistant became hysterical when she arrived on the scene and had to be consoled by other relatives.
The boy’s close friends, Preston Gomez and Isaac Stephen, told Newsday that it was the first time Callender-Duncan had ventured into the stadium to witness a football match.
“Is the first time ever he gone to a stadium. He didn’t deserve to die that way, he never troubled anyone, he was too cool.”
Stephen told Newsday that teenagers today have to learn to expect death.
“It is normal now with us – all we have to do is expect it.”
Police are looking for three students of a south secondary school in connection with the murder. On Friday night, scores of male and female students were seen openly shedding tears for the dead teenager.
One student said, “We were told that ‘Caps’ students must not come in Marabella. He paid with his life although he had nothing to do with any war.”
Investigations are continuing.
