MANDEVILLE, Manchester : Tragedy hits Holmwood Technical High School again....Dead is 16-year-old Stephan Hanson of Bloomfield Street in Mandeville who was stabbed in a dispute with another student, allegedly over a girl, when a knife was brought into play.

BY ALICIA SUTHERLAND Observer staff reporter sutherlanda@jamaicaobserver.com  Monday, February 16, 2015    

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — The Manchester police say that a student of the Holmwood Technical High School who allegedly stabbed one of his schoolmates, resulting in his death in hospital on Saturday, will be charged for the crime this week.

Dead is 16-year-old Stephan Hanson of Bloomfield Street in Mandeville.

A section of the Holmwood Technical High School.

According to the police, the two students had a dispute in the town of Mandeville on Friday when Hanson was stabbed. He was taken to hospital where he died Saturday.

Stephen Hanson, father of the deceased, told the Jamaica Observer that he learnt that his son was on the scene, but it was a friend of his who was involved in a dispute with another student, allegedly over a girl, when a knife was brought into play and his son stabbed.

“He was just there. He was not trying to part them,” said the elder Hanson.

Yesterday, Hanson said the family was yet to break the news of his son’s death to his 99-year-old grandmother who had assisted in raising him. He said that she had noticed that he was not home and had asked for him but the family decided to let her pastor deliver the tragic news. “Wi nuh waan the two funeral,” he said.

Hanson said that as a “straightforward Christian” one of the lessons that his great-grandmother reinforced to him daily was to stay away from trouble. “’If no pickney ah fight don’t get into it’,” he said were her words to him before he leaves the house. more