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Post by dave44 on Apr 9, 2014 13:08:24 GMT -5
When will we finally put a stop to cutting our own steaks, can't we see how dangerous we are to ourselves? abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/custody-pennsylvania-school-stabbings-23253052 A 16-year-old armed with two knives went on a stabbing and slashing spree at a high school near Pittsburgh on Wednesday, leaving 20 people injured, including a school police officer who eventually subdued him with the help of an assistant principal, authorities said. The attack occurred in crowded hallways just minutes before the start of school. Of the 19 students injured, four suffered serious wounds, but all were expected to survive, hospital officials said. The injured officer was discharged. |
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Post by xlter on Apr 9, 2014 13:49:35 GMT -5
Update to your story Dave :
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.
Michael Float, an 18-year-old senior, said he had just gotten to school when he saw “blood all over the floor” and smeared on the wall near the main entrance. Then he saw a wounded student.
“He had his shirt pulled up and he was screaming, ‘Help! Help!’” Float said. “He had a stab wound right at the top right of his stomach, blood pouring down.”
Float said he saw a teacher applying pressure to the wound of another student who had been stabbed.
Float said he knew who the suspect was but didn’t know him personally. “I heard he’s a very nice kid. I don’t know what drove him to do it,” Float said.
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.
UPMC Presby says a 17-year-old victim is on life support, and in critical condition. Doctors say it appears a large knife was used in the stabbings, causing damage, but missing the teen’s heart.
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
Five patients had been discharged, including three 15-year-old boys, a 16-year-old girl and an adult, who is believed to be the school officer who suffered only superficial wounds.
Hospital officials say patients range from 15-to-60-years old.
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.
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Post by unclebuck257 on Apr 10, 2014 11:53:17 GMT -5
dave and xlter,
I wish both of you would stop bothering me with these types of posts to read. I'm way too busy trying to start a national ANTI KNIFE movement that would ban semi auto kitchen knives and for that matter, any knife that can be used quickly more than once within an hour. We have to stop this knife insanity and Boy Scout pen knives are at the top of my list too. Those innocent looking little folding things can be used to create a sharp point on something!! Why, did you know that ANY mother who owns a kitchen knife can become a mass murderer!? Sorry guys, I've got to go. First meeting is in 15 minutes.
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Post by unclebuck257 on Apr 10, 2014 14:57:53 GMT -5
Well the first and last meeting is now over. Just my two dogs and me showed up. Even my own wife called me "a lousy anti"! The dogs actually only came because I used dog bones to get them there. Guess I should have invited an anti gun lib so they could have bitten them!! At least they would have enjoyed themselves more! LMBO!
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Post by xlter on Apr 11, 2014 4:00:18 GMT -5
LMAO , I actually had my mother going for a few minutes on the exact same subject . When she said " NOW , thats just crazy .Why would they BAN knifes ? The kid did the stabbings , NOT the knifes ! " I then said , now you understand why these Anti-gun laws get me upset . She then had a confused look on her face .......
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Post by unclebuck257 on Apr 11, 2014 10:37:31 GMT -5
LMAO , I actually had my mother going for a few minutes on the exact same subject . When she said " NOW , thats just crazy .Why would they BAN knifes ? The kid did the stabbings , NOT the knifes ! " I then said , now you understand why these Anti-gun laws get me upset . She then had a confused look on her face ....... AMEN Brother! |
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