An 18-year-old man from Pavee, Castries is now in police custody in connection with the stabbing of a 15-year-old George Charles Secondary School student in Pavee on Thursday afternoon.
The suspect turned himself into the police at about 10 p.m. Thursday.
Meanwhile, the victim, Felicity Florton of Chase Gardens, Castries was hospitalised in serious condition after she sustained multiple stab wounds.
Residents reportedly saw Florton running and screaming for help while bleeding profusely at around 3 p.m. Thursday.
The motive for the stabbing is not yet clear.
“I was walking down the road…. I saw this young lady running out of the alley, screaming and blood all over her face and body… I kept asking her what happen. She wouldn’t say anything. After a while she fell… then one or two neighbours came around… and they assisted her. The police was passing at the same time, they stopped, called 911, (then the) ambulance reached,”said an eyewitness who claimed he was one of the first persons on the scene.
Residents told St. Lucia News Online that the student identified her attacker.
“Then somebody was asking her ‘who did it? who did it?’ and then she mentioned a person’s name,” the source added.
Another resident, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said the teenager sustained multiple stab wounds to her face, abdomen, one between her legs and another on her wrist.
The resident said the man accused of stabbing the student apparently “tripped out” and is of unstable mind. The resident however refused to identify the suspect’s name and house in fear of jeopardising the safety of her two young daughters.
A Pavee resident also shared what he witnessed on his Facebook profile: “They just attack a George Charles girl outside my home deh, leaving her on the ground bleeding. Now I heard the person screaming (and) I thought it was the girls that always making noise. After a while I go check… seeing the girl on the ground bleeding. Whoever do it run. Choops. A lil school girl like that and just leave the person child bleeding deh.”
This is the second female student to be attacked in Castries within 10 days.
On Tuesday, June 3 at about 3:15 p.m., 16-year-old Nichole Elibox of the St. Joseph Convent School sustained stab wounds to both hands while trying to fight off a male attacker from taking her cell phone.
The perpetrator escaped with her cell phone. No one has been arrested to date for that incident.
