Montreal mother demands justice, says 'I am hollow' after 16-year-old son killed
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Charla Dopwell was riding home on a Montreal bus Monday after working double shifts for five days straight when her phone rang.
It was the police. They told her to get off the bus and they'd pick her up.
"They rushed me to the hospital. They said he was stabbed up and he is critical. And they said they were doing their best to help him," Dopwell said.
An hour or two later, she was told her youngest son had died. Jannai Dopwell-Bailey was just 16 years old.
"I am hollow," she said.
"My baby. They take him away from me. I love my baby very much. And I will be in pain for the rest of my life."
Montreal police say there was an altercation involving a group of teens outside Mile End high school, an alternative high school program in the English Montreal School Board, near the corner of Van Horne and Victoria avenues around 3 p.m. Monday.
Police say the victim was stabbed in the upper body.
The injured boy went into the school for help and was transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries, where he later died.
According to the EMSB, the boy was a student at the high school program, located in the basement of another school, Coronation Elementary.
Both schools cancelled classes Tuesday and a trauma team was deployed to meet with staff and to assist students.
Montreal police are still looking for three suspects, and a spokesperson for the service said videos posted to social media after the incident will likely play a big part in the investigation.
In those videos, people are mocking Jannai's death on Instagram and Snapchat — in one there are three people in ski masks holding a knife.
"I love my son and I want justice for him," said Dopwell.
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