A student went on a stabbing rampage injuring 19 students and an adult security guard at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, at approximately 7:15 am Wednesday April 9th.
A male suspect who authorities say is a 16-year-old student at the high school reportedly attacked his fellow classmates with two large kitchen knives, according to NPR.
NPR stated that not all students were injured due to getting cut or stabbed; they were hurt during the rush to get out of the school and away from danger.
“I saw this kid in all black running down the hallway, stabbing,” said Gracey Evans, a junior from Murrysville. “He was just stabbing everybody that was in his way,” she told Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The injured students ranged from 14 to 17 years of age stated NPR.
Four victims of the stabbing were airlifted to Forbes Regional Medical Center stated WESA, Pittsburgh’s NPR news station. The station, which is live reporting the stabbing aftermath, stated that Dr. Chris Kauffman, doctor at the medical center, said that some victims have injuries classified as life-threatening though they are all expected to live.
Evans who applied pressure to the wounds of one of her classmates was described as a “real hero” by social workers when she and her injured friends were taken to Forbes Regional stated the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
“I'm still shaking. I was crying. Then the mother of the boy that I helped comes in, and she saw me and she just started crying, and I said to her, 'I saved your son,' and she started crying some more," Evans told Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
According to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, assistant principal of Franklin Regional, Sam King tackled the suspect after a student pulled a fire alarm. The suspect is now in police custody.
Murrysville Police Chief Thomas Seefeld said in an interview with the Post-Gazette that the motive for the stabbing is still unclear.
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