The St Andrew Central Police will intensify efforts to stop and search students in Half-Way-Tree and surrounding areas, following two separate incidents over the past 48 hours that left a student dead.


Divisional head Superintendent Derrick 'Cowboy' Knight reportedly told the Observer that his office will be moving forward with a series of vigorous, robust stop-and-search operations to clamp down on this development.


He said investigators were probing reports that rivalry between schools in the Manning Cup football competitions may have been a factor.


Knight's comments followed the stabbing death of Shaquille Nelson, a 16-year-old student of the St Andrew College, and the injuring of another male student on Tuesday. Nelson was chased into a Toyota Coaster bus by two men and stabbed several times in the chest. He later died at hospital.
Hours earlier a student from City College was set upon by a group of teenagers from another school and seriously assaulted. He had to be hospitalised.