Earlier Fight May Be Behind School Stabbing That Left 5 Wounded & 2 Brothers Charged With Attempted Murder
Posted June 17, 2009 12:00 pm.
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The images are grainy, but they’re clear enough to see what’s happening. Those fleeting pictures may be the best clue we have about why a group of teenagers got into a brawl at St. Joseph Secondary School on Creditview near Bristol Rd. W . in Mississauga Wednesday morning.
It’s a cell phone video of a huge fight at the campus on Monday (top left), obtained exclusively by CityNews. And it shows several teens beating another student, who was accused of robbing one of the kids at the school.
Police allege the 16-year-old who was the object of that thrashing and his 17-year-old brother came back to the campus around 8:30am Wednesday, looking for revenge – and armed with knives. Another fight broke out but this time, the casualties were more than just some black and blue marks. By the time it was over, four students involved in the brawl had been stabbed and a female teacher who tried to break it up was also knifed in the hand.
It was supposed to be an exam day for students at the school. Instead they learned a terrible lesson in violence as the building was placed in lockdown for several hours, before all classes and tests were cancelled for the day.
Gordon Tam and Thomas Fistric were among the students stunned by the violence happening right before their eyes. “We saw some guy who had his shirt ripped, a big slash of blood on his neck. He got stabbed in his stomach. He was using his shirt to stop the flow of blood,” they explained, the flow of words divided between them.
“We continued walking to our class and all of a sudden we hear this big shriek like, ‘Oh, my God,’ and more and more shrieks.”
