Chaos has ensued at a suburban Pittsburgh high school after a student went on a stabbing spree, wounding 20 students Wednesday morning. The student has been taken into custody.
Dan Stevens, the spokesman for Westmoreland County emergency management, standing by at western Pennsylvania’s Franklin Regional Senior High School, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that at least four medical helicopters transported victims, ranging in age from 14 to 17, from the school to hospitals. He said none of the injuries appeared to be life threatening but some will likely require hospital stays.
The school is in Murrysville, about 15 miles east of downtown Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania. The school was releasing students to their parents after the incident, Stevens said.
Information on what led to the stabbings and the conditions of the injured were not immediately released. Stevens said detectives are interviewing the suspect, a student at the school, as to a motive in the stabbings.
WTAE TV is reporting that the incident happened early this morning in the science wing of the school.
Stay tuned to further developments.
