Two St. Thomas teenagers were hospitalized Tuesday afternoon after unrelated fights near Charlotte Amalie High School and Addelita Cancryn Junior High School. The perpetrators of both alleged crimes remained at large.
Police spokeswoman Sgt. Annette Raimer said police officers were called to the CAHS campus after an altercation escalated into a stabbing. The victim was seen running toward the Sugar Estate Post Office, bleeding from a stab wound. Raimer said the victim was taken to Roy Schneider Hospital, where officers were trying to determine the motive for the stabbing.
Raimer said a suspect fled towards the Paul M. Pearson Garden public housing community. The suspect was dressed in a white shirt, blue jeans and sneakers at the time of the knifing.
Within minutes of the stabbing, officers were summoned to Cancryn Junior High School near Frenchtown where one student reportedly attacked another with a baseball bat.
Raimer said she did not know what triggered the attack. She said the victim was transported by ambulance to Schneider hospital for treatment of a laceration to the head; the suspect, who she said was another Cancryn student, remained at large Tuesday afternoon.
Raimer appealed to anyone with additional information to call the VIPD Juvenile Bureau at 774-5880 or the emergency number 911.
