16-year-old victim of Pointe-Claire stabbing dies in hospital

A 16-year-old boy who was stabbed near a Montreal high school on Tuesday has succumbed to his injuries. He was a student at John Rennie High School, according to the principal.

The stabbing took place Tuesday afternoon just outside St-Thomas High School, in the Pointe-Claire suburb in Montreal's West Island.

However, the victim was a student at John Rennie high school, according to that school's administration, which told parents of his death in a message on Thursday.

"It is with profound sadness that I am informing you of the death of a 16-year-old John Rennie High School student," wrote principal Jennifer Kurta in the letter.

"He was one of the students injured on Tuesday afternoon during an altercation that occurred between two groups of students" near St-Thomas, she wrote.