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A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a boy of the same age was stabbed outside a north-west London school as his fellow students looked on.
Quamari Barnes was attacked while waiting at a bus stop at about 3.30pm on Monday, shortly after the end of the school day at Capital City academy. He was taken by ambulance to a central London hospital where he died.
According to a family friend he was threatened at a bus stop and his assailant chased him as he fled towards school for safety, but the motive for the attack is not yet known.
He is the second London teenager in four days to be fatally wounded in a knife attack. On Friday Djodjo Nsaka, 19, a student at Middlesex University, was found stabbed a few miles away near Wembley stadium.
Throughout Tuesday morning Capital City academy pupils emerged from the school to lay flowers and notes at the entrance gate, clutching each other tearfully or standing quietly together.
One note read: “Quamari was the most positive and energetic person I have ever met. He brought life into everyone’s lives. ‘When one door is closed you know another one is open’ – Bob Marley.”
On Twitter he was celebrated as a “bubbly, happy and also cheeky little boy”.
The school had initially been hopeful that he would pull through, informing parents later on Monday that he was expected to survive, but announcing on Tuesday that he had died.
“It is with overwhelming sadness that Capital City must confirm the sudden death of one of its students on Monday 23rd January,” it said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family at this very sad time, and also with friends, fellow students and teachers. [We] will be offering a counselling service to students and staff.”
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