Posted on 04/09/2014 12:36:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Armed with two knives, a 16-year-old student at Franklin Regional High School in Murraysville, Pennsylvania attacked his classmates this morning. Four students are in critical condition, while the suspect is in custody — after having been tackled by an assistant principal to end the attack:
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Multiple people were stabbed at a high school in the suburbs east of Pittsburgh, officials said.
Emergency management spokesman Dan Stevens said four students were believed to be seriously injured when a student with a knife stabbed or slashed others, injuring as many as 20.
Stevens said not all of the 20 injured were cut by the knife, though most were. Some suffered scrapes and cuts in the mayhem that ensued at Franklin Regional High School on Wednesday morning. Stevens says it doesn’t appear any students suffered life-threatening injuries.
While Stevens said all the injured are between 14 and 17 years old, hospital officials told CBS Pittsburgh the patients they were taking in from the incident range from 15 to 60 years old.
The FBI also responded to the scene, but are emphasizing that they are in a support role only. This will be a local investigation.
The number of potential victims might have been higher, but a quick-thinking student hit the fire alarm. Another saved one of the severely-wounded victims by staying with her and keeping pressure on the injury to keep her from bleeding out:
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Alyssa Finch, who said she is a student at Franklin Regional High School, told ABC News a fellow student pulled the fire alarm during the stabbing “because he knew what was happening … and he wanted the people to get out.”
KTLA in Los Angeles picked up on the story of the assistant principal’s action:
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At Least 20 Students Injured in Pennsylvania High School Stabbing
WTAE has raw video of the suspect:
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ABC continued its coverage with updates on medical treatment for the victims. All eight of the seriously wounded will need surgery, and three of them needed it immediately:
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Pray for the victims. If readers want to help, one way would be to contact your local Red Cross for blood donations, or contributions.
“...so now the gun grabbers have to figure out how to spin this incident....”
I can guarantee you that THAT is already in the works. They never let an opportunity go to waste.
I grew up very near there, there are lost of “old” ethnics in western PA. everyone in my HS was either of eastern european extraction or Italian, Greek, etc. And by that i mean grandparents off the boat from Ellis Island.
Knowing this area, there is not going to be any muslim connection uncovered. This is a disturbed kid. No terror connection i would bet. This is a majority white, upper middle class area. Or at least it was, can you speak to this PAEngineer?
“I can guarantee you that THAT is already in the works. They never let an opportunity go to waste.”
NO kidding! Just read something from an AH writing for “The Hill,” that the school was “lucky” that knives were used instead of a gun.
Thnx. I don’t really need any more detail....
Thanks for the update. I graduated from Kiski Area sr HS about a million years ago. But lived more towards murrysville.
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