Posted on 04/09/2014 10:33:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
MURRYSVILLE (KDKA) – At least 20-people have been injured in a stabbing at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville.
Murrysville police Chief Thomas Seefeld says 19-of the victims are students, one of them is a school security guard.
A school security guard called in the stabbing at 7:13 a.m.
Seefeld wouldn’t detail the carnage beyond saying, “The juvenile went down the hallway and was flashing two knives around and injured the people.”
Police say the 16-year-old male student suspect is in custody and is a sophomore at the high school.
He was transported from the Murrysville Police Department by police car, and reportedly taken to a local hospital for superficial wounds, and then returned.
Investigators haven’t determined a motive, but Seefeld said they’re looking into reports of a threatening phone call between the suspect and another student the night before. Seefeld didn’t specify whether the suspect reportedly received or made the call.
Jeff Dahlke with the security company who provides security for Franklin Regional High School says the suspect was armed with two knives.
“The alarm went off, and students started rushing outside, the security guard outside rushed in, and came upon his supervisor, and a vice principal who had the suspect in custody on the ground and was trying to control him, and try to get the weapons away from him,” Dahlke said.
Police say that security guard was stabbed in the abdomen.
Two student victims were in critical condition, according to Dr. Mark Rubino of Forbes Regional Medical Center.
The CEO of Forbes Hospital tells KDKA’s Heather Abraham that one-student applied pressure to an injured classmate, possibly saving student’s life.
Several local hospitals report patients were taken to their hospitals. Here is the breakdown of victims.
–8 at Forbes Regional Hospital –5 at UPMC East –4 at UPMC Children’s Hospital –1 at UPMC Mercy –1 at UPMC Presby –1 at Allegheny General Hostpital
Hospital officials say patients range from 15-to-60-years old.
UPMC Presby says the 17-year-old male student they have there is in critical condition with chest and abdominal injuries.
According to a witness, the stabbings happened in the science wing of the building.
“One of the students pulled the alarm, my daughter said, after the incident happened to clear the school. She reported to me it was a 10th grade student,” parent Tim Graham told KDKA.
The chief said someone, possibly a student, pulled a fire alarm after seeing some of the victims being stabbed. Although that created chaos, he said, it also resulted in students running out of the school to safety faster than they might have otherwise.
“The fire alarm being pulled probably assisted with the evacuation of the school and that was a good thing that that was done,” Seefeld said.
Several students tell us that Franklin Regional student Nate Scimio pulled the fire alarm and was stabbed.
Scimio posted this photo on his Instagram account showing him at Children’s Hospital with a stab wound to the arm.
Franklin Regional School District says the high school will be closed for the next few days, but the middle school and elementary school will be open tomorrow.
Westomreland County Public Safety spokesman Dan Stevens said, “We haven’t lost a life. That’s what we have to keep in mind.”
Governor Tom Corbett issued a statement that reads:
“I was shocked and saddened upon learning of the events that occurred this morning as students arrived at Franklin Regional High School. As a parent and grandparent, I can think of nothing more distressing than senseless violence against children. My heart and prayers go out to all the victims and their families.”
“I have directed the Pennsylvania State Police to assist local law enforcement in its investigation in any way possible. Other state resources will be made available to the community, if needed. I assure the citizens of Murrysville that they have the full support of my administration.”
Reminds me of something heard this a.m. A city council person resigned recently where he wrote his resignation in Klingon according to the report.
did he eventually turn the knife on himself? Too bad there wasn’t a teacher with a permit to carry a spork.
lol
or did they get replaced with Ipads?
Hey, those things have GLASS in them! Somebody might get cut!.................
did he run with scissors?
That is an additional charge bucko!
lol
the place would be closed by OSHA I guess
I remember that from a few months ago. If this was my co-worker, I’d be concerned for how stable he was. This was immature and inappropriate for a real life situation. This is not a virtual meeting, sir. The records show you standing here in your suit, grinning and babbling space talk nonsense.
Do NOT re-hire.
Folding chair - meet perp.
Perp - meet folding chair.
Conflict resolution 101.
But then again... these kids aren’t TAUGHT to defend themselves anymore. They’re taught to:
a. Run
b. Scream
c. Run FASTER
d. Scream LOUDER
e. Hide
f. Lather, rinse, repeat.
At least one of them pulled the fire alarm.
will the alarm puller be expelled?
That was my first reaction as well. Something very wrong with a person writing a resignation in that manner.
In saner times, I’d say you forgot the “/sarc” tag.
Not so much, right now...
If parents taught their kids to fight back, instead of letting the schools indoctrinate them with their stupid liberal feel-good bullsh*t, this kid would have been flattened immediately by a couple seniors with trash cans, folding chairs, or even a PC flat screen monitor.
The self-defense instinct has been dumbed down. Hell, when I was in HS, if a kid started a rampage like that, he’d have been buried under the dog pile of juniors and seniors from the football team in a heartbeat. And he wouldn’t be walking away from it.
What a day we live in...
That must have been a really long knife.
***...it also resulted in students running out of the school to safety faster than they might have otherwise. ***
Don’t the schools still have fire drill in which the students leave the school in an orderly fashion?
g. sue
When I went into the military back in 1966, we were issued a sewing kit with our uniforms. The sewing kit had a very dangerous item, a pair of kindergarten scissors with rounded tips.
Yeah... forgot that one...
Doesn’t work so well when yer dead, though...
Actually, those are all good ideas.
I will teach my kids self defense that really works, most of what you listed is good for sport activities.
That knife would have been no match for a baseball bat in the hands of someone that wasn’t a hand wringing liberal.
High capacity automatic assault knives with collapsible stock, bayonet lugs, flash hiders, and the ever deadly black finish to make it even sceeeerier!
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