Up to 20 people stabbed at Pennsylvania high school
 

A teenager armed with two knives has gone on a rampage at a high school in the US state of Pennsylvania, injuring 19 students and a security guard.

The 16-year-old student was taken into custody at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, a suburb of Pittsburgh, police said.

The wounded, some with serious stab wounds to the torso, were as young as 14. Several were in surgery in hospital.

All are expected to survive.

Eight patients were transported to nearby Forbes Regional Hospital, three of whom had suffered severe injuries.

Two of those patients were in critical condition, while up to four were expected to recover from superficial wounds, Dr Mark Rubino told reporters.

The initial report of the attack came before 08:00 local time (12:00 GMT) on Wednesday morning.

"A critical incident has occurred at the high school," school officials wrote in a bulletin. "All elementary schools are cancelled, the middle school and high school students are secure."

The panicked students poured out of the school building, some suffering injuries in the chaos, as police descended in search of the suspected attacker.

Among the injured was a security guard, Murrysville Police Chief Thomas Seefeld said.

Morris Hundley told CBS television his "frantic" 14-year-old daughter Morriah called him to say a friend of hers had been stabbed at the school in Murrysville.

"I would never expect this to happen," he said, adding that he had believed the community to be safe.

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Someone should have shot him.

If the security guard had a gun, he most likely wouldn't have been stabbed and he may very well have saved some of the children from being attacked too.

School stabbed was an lgbter who thought not being made homecoming queen was bullying

WE NEED TOUGHER GUN LAWS NOW!!! - o wait....

agreed

This day and age, everyone is aware attacks like this will be happening in schools. To me, it's irresponsible to have unarmed guards.

Reuters at least reports the security guard was armed. And I understand there was actually two of them.

get rid of knives! we will eat with sporks :Oh crap :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

The school is 15 minutes from me.

sad to hear that crazy theory almost worked

Too many crazy people in this world :(

And write with little short prison pencils. :warning

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/6109...-hs-stabbings/
"“I saw this kid in all black running down the hallway, stabbing. “He was just stabbing everybody that was in his way"


You aren't going to stop that with armed guards. Nobody is going to shoot in a school full of kids. Taking him down by physical force was the only way.

Students are reporting that he was the victim of aggressive bullying.

http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2014...ctim-bullying/

"The stabbing motion is consistent with the sophomore student indiscriminately running down the hallway slashing at any one he could, perhaps in the belief that the whole school was guilty with the woe he had come to feel as the result of purportedly being bullied."

Quite possibly, but...I'm not entirely sold on rent-a-cop having guns in school.


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