By INDARJIT SEURAJ Tuesday, February 9 2010

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DAZED: (From left) Anderson Taylor, Stephen Murray and Jayde Lashley, friends of murder victim Jevon 'Busta' Douglas, sit on the culvert with dazed, s...

POLICE were last night searching for a Form Three student who stabbed and killed another teenager during an altercation along the Eastern Main Road in Mt Hope. Jevon “Busta” Douglas, 18, of Esperanza Drive, Mt D’or Road, Mt D’or died while receiving emergency treatment at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC) in Mt Hope shortly before 3 pm yesterday.

Douglas was stabbed once in the chest by a 15-year-old student of the Mt Hope Secondary School. After dealing Douglas the fatal stab, the youthful killer reportedly ran off from the scene, throwing away the murder weapon away as he fled.

The sight of blood oozing from Douglas’ chest as he lay on the pavement, sent a group of students who were awaiting transport to their homes, screaming and running in horror. Douglas was a past student of Mt Hope Secondary.

Police were busy yesterday evening interviewing witnesses to ascertain what sparked the altercation between the two. They were also searching for the weapon.

The incident occurred opposite American Stores on the northern pavement of the Eastern Main Road. When Newsday visited the scene at 6.15 pm, a team of investigators led by Insp Stanley Ramdeen and including Sgt Eric Parks, Sgt Etienne and PC Marvin Pinder, accompanied a witness who was assisting in retrieving the murder weapon.

Douglas’ relatives could not be contacted for comment, but back at Esperanza Drive his friends demanded justice. “We want to get justice for our partner, you know,” cried Anderson Taylor as he and other friends of Douglas sat on a culvert near the crime scene with dazed looks on their faces.

Another interjected, “Do not let us have to take justice into our own hands. We want justice for Busta.” Stephen Murray, another friend of Douglas said, “those students are going to school with anything in their bags and pockets these days.”

“Douglas was a real good friend of ours. He was a normal youth man,” another friend Jayde Lashley said. Their worst fears were confirmed when this reporter informed them that Douglas had succumbed to his injury at hospital.

The four friends who said they grew up with Douglas in the same community also worked together erecting scaffolding on constructions sites. Detectives from the Homicide Bureau of Investigations and the St Joseph Police Station are continuing investigations.