Teen pleads guilty to killing schoolmate with axe at River Valley High School in 2021

He was originally handed a murder charge, but it was reduced in February to one of culpable homicide. - ST FILE

SINGAPORE: Suffering from depression, a 16-year-old student at River Valley High School bought several weapons, including a combat axe, between March and April 2021.

Now 18, he pleaded guilty on Dec 1 to killing a fellow student with an axe.