Posted on 04/09/2014 6:23:26 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
Several people were stabbed Wednesday morning at a high school near Pittsburgh, and a suspect was taken into custody, an emergency official said.
Dan Stevens, the spokesman for Westmoreland County emergency management, said five or six people were reported stabbed at about 7:20 a.m. at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, about 15 miles east of Pittsburgh.
It wasn't immediately clear if the suspect and the victims are students, adults or a mix of both. It doesn't appear that any of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries, Stevens said, though several helicopters were seen flying people from the scene to area hospitals.
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For anyone caring about the story, as opposed to lame jokes...please remember that this hits really, really close to home for a lot of us. My son goes to a close by district and plays soccer (and we have learned baseball) w/kids who go there. Kids are still trying to find out status of their friends. My husband’s co worker had to leave work, his daughter was right there. She’s physically ok, but crying on phone. Please no more jokes.
Here is the update, one of the less injured kid’s posted to Instagram. This boy is believed to be the one that pulled the fire alarm.
20-Injured In Stabbing At Franklin Regional High School « CBS Pittsburgh
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/04/09/multiple-students-reported-stabbed-at-franklin-regional-high-school/
We need KNIFE CONTROL where is Piers Morgan with his usual outrage..gee..stab 20 students, if only someone at the school, had one of those things to stop him, what is that thing called again..oh yeah..a GUN
Hello Civ,
check your FR mail. I wonder how close the description matches? You’ll understand once you read it. :-)
We the People are with you, and may God bless you all in the military.
Much better coverage than U.S. media.
But this sounds like a student.
Still gonna stay with white male.
Ping.
“Still gonna stay with white male.”
That would be major conclusion to jump to as there is a chance this attack was terrorism related or related to area gang activity.
It could simply be some kid who is off his meds and had an unfortunate meltdown or some thug who just wanted to hurt a bunch of people.
From here on out, all knife blades must be rubber. What is more “common sense” than that?
must have sumthin to do with that Blood moon thing.
Only professional chefs should have knives, and they should be tightly regulated with a tracking beacon.
Locally in several different schools it is "suggested" that little "problem student Johnnie/Jenny" needs to see if "Popular teenage prescription mind numbing drug" will settle him/her down. Many of the old timer teachers are appalled but it has become policy now to urge parents to drug their children if they don't follow in lock step with the dictates of the Public School overlords.
And I am not exaggerating, I have many friends who work in the local schools from all parts of the system.
One incident was a 7th grade girl refused to undress and change in the locker rooms for phys ed. (They don't have private stalls at our school) after her refusing to submit (with much drama and yelling by the teacher and embarrassing her in front of the other students) she got detention etc but she would not back down! Then the school suggested drug therapy may help in the form of a letter to her parents. Come to find out they were very religious and they don't allow disrobing in a group etc. . They parents had notified the teacher with written notes several times but they were ignored. The parents and a lawyer showed up at school with the drug letter and not surprisingly the school backed down quick and the whole thing was settled by allowing the girl to change in a small room that is in the locker rooms.
Any time a student acts in a way the School Admin/Teachers deem inappropriate (Like when the caught a Freshman Boy and girl making whoopie in the restroom several times) Drug therapy is urged. One teacher confided in me that around 35% of the students in the high school are on some form of drugs prescribed for behavior disorders/depression. (Students must inform the schools of any Rx drugs they are taking lest they have the hammer dropped on them for abusing drugs)
I of course am no Doctor buy I can safely say there is no way 35% of our high school kids NEED behavior modifying drugs. but there is BIG MONEY in those drugs so of course if you can get the Gub'ment to push those drugs through our schools well Big Pharma can make even more money now can't they?
Links to photo of 16-year-old stabber are on Post #45.
How frightening for all the families. My prayers are with all of you and with the victims. Praise God that young man pulled the fire alarm (not clear if he was stabbed before or after pulling the alarm).
So technically, the school doesn't prescribe the meds, they only start a process which ends up in medication, often without recourse for the parents or the child.
:’) Time will tell. Juvenile though, so may not get a name or picture.
“If that photo is correct, then the stabber is obviously white, and it wasn’t a racist crime. Maybe some crazy kid on meds?”
From the picture, that looks to be the case. Not a gang thug with an evil heart or a Muslim terrorist, but just some crazy kid who on either on or off his medications.
I agree with the person being off their meds as a good possibility. Daily mail had a picture of a "suspect" who appeared to be late teens/20s white mail earlier today.
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