Another schoolboy was knifed to death in less than three days as school violence has once again reared its ugly head along the East/West corridor.

Yesterday’s incident occurred in St Joseph, near Curepe, where the victim, Dillon Griffith, 18, a pupil of St Augustine Senior Comprehensive School was killed by a single stab to the chest.

Only last Friday, 13-year-old Malik Hillaire, of Barataria Senior Comprehensive, was stabbed mere metres away from his Barataria home. With the knife still lodged in his chest Hillaire was taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

In the latest incident, which has pushed the murder toll to 458, police said around 2.30 p.m. Griffith, and two other pupils both from St Joseph’s College, got into an argument which quickly turned into a scuffle near the Curepe Recreation Ground off the Priority Bus Route in St Joseph.

The Express was told that during the melee one of the boys handed the other a 12-inch long dagger and it was plunged it into the chest of Griffith. The injured pupil ran a short distance across the Bus Route and collapsed near the St Joseph mosque.

Two police vehicles, travelling on the Bus Route stopped, one group of officers picked up the bleeding teen and rushed him to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex where he died on arrival, while the other officers detained two suspects-aged 17 and 18-who were taken to the St Joseph Police Station. They were being interviewed by Homicide Bureau detectives up to press time last night.

In Hillaire’s case, a 15-year-old boy remains in police custody.