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ZWADE Alleyne has died.

Around 4.15 p.m. yesterday, the 17-year-old passed away at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope, where he had spent several days after he was shot outside his mother’s apartment in Maloney.

Earlier yesterday, various social media outlets, as well as the Education Ministry, carried notices of condolence as they reported that the boy had passed, but according to his uncle, around 2.30 p.m., he said: “Alleyne is still holding on.”