Oshawa student Michael McDonald stabbed to death at bus stop

One teenager died after being stabbed near an Oshawa school and another was fighting for his life Tuesday night after being stabbed near a Mississauga elementary school.

Durham police said an ongoing dispute between two Oshawa teens sparked a fight that ended with a 16-year-old boy being fatally stabbed in front of a crowd of students at a bus shelter Tuesday afternoon.

The victim, identified by friends as Mike McDonald, got into a fight with a fellow student from Oshawa’s Monsignor Paul Dwyer Catholic High School while they waited for the bus across the road from the school at Rossland and Stevenson Rds., friends said.

Moments later, he was stabbed in the chest and fell to the ground, said Kyle Roberts, 19, a former student who played football with McDonald. “I saw him lying on the ground being worked on as they tried to resuscitate him.”

McDonald, known at school as “Biggie,” was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

An 18-year-old was arrested within minutes, said Durham police spokesman Dave Selby.

McDonald is the region’s fourth homicide victim this year.

“It was not a random event. There was a history, an ongoing dispute between the two,” Selby said.

Several people came to McDonald’s aid and police interviewed many witnesses from the bus shelter, Selby said.

Several students said the fight was over “a girl and 10 bucks,” but they didn’t know any details.

The stabbing has rattled students, who described McDonald as a “big teddy bear” and a “sweetheart” who wasn’t inclined to violence.

The football team plans to wear their jerseys Wednesday to commemorate their dead teammate, one player said.

“He was an amazing football player, one of the best on the team,” Brandon Vig said.

“Everyone liked him. He would stick up for his friends. His friends were everything to him.”

Hours later, nearby residents were still in shock as they watched investigators from the intersection.

“It’s really bad up here with all the fighting,” said Catherine Parsons, a longtime resident.

“Every day there’s police cars in the plaza where the kids hang out. They need to put metal detectors in the school and stop this violence.

“A young life has just been needlessly taken.”

At the other side of the GTA, a 15-year-old boy was stabbed at a Mississauga school, Peel police said.

Police were called to St. Gertrude Separate elementary school, near Mavis and Bristol Rds., around 5:15 p.m.

They found the injured teen in the school’s parking lot, Const. Samantha Nulle said.

The boy was flown to a trauma hospital in Toronto with life-threatening injuries, Nulle said.

Police do not believe the incident is related to the school because the victim is too old to be an elementary student.

Police are looking for three teenage suspects.