A 16-year-old student has been charged and released on bail over the wounding of Jamal Reid of Golden Grove Secondary School, East Coast Demerara last Thursday afternoon.
Reid remains hospitalized in a critical condition.
Stabroek News was told that the 16-year-old, who also attends the Golden Grove Secondary School, was arrested and charged. He was in police custody for 72 hours.
Reid remains in a critical condition at Georgetown Public Hospital. He suffered a fractured skull as a result of the incident.
The Ministry of Education has provided support to the parent of the boy.
Reid, who is a 5th form student of Golden Grove Secondary was struck in the head with a cricket bat by the 16-year-old student during a confrontation over squibs.
Pheona Carroll, his aunt, had told Stabroek News that her nephew suffered severe brain damage as a result of the injury and as a result, loss of movement on the left side of his body.
“He can’t move anything on the left side. He was trying to move his hand and fingers on the left side and it was difficult. His eye on the left side was close down. He tried opening it and it did open but little bit. His left side face not moving only the right side”, she had told this newspaper.
