Stabbing or killing a person with a knife is very personal whereas using a gun on a person a person might pretend they are playing a video game and just pull the trigger. This is one of the problems of irresponsible people getting a hold of guns.
However, in this case a 16 year old just grabbed some kitchen butcher knives or even steak or bread knives or whatever and went after 20 or more students, teachers and a security guard and stabbed many of them, luckily so far none are fatal wounds.
However, it does bring up a very interesting point. You cannot lock up all kitchen knives because everyone uses them all the time. Are you going to lock up baseball bats too? I think in some strange way this young 16 year old did the nation a favor by showing us that "Literally anything from a piece of wood to poison to a car or truck to a knife or baseball bat to a hockey stick is a lethal weapon.
Unfortunately, this 16 year old's life is over because of what he has done and let's hope all these children and adults survive by God's Grace.
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Murrysville,
Pennsylvania (CNN) -- A teenage boy wielding two kitchen knives went on
a stabbing rampage at his high school in Murrysville, Pennsylvania,
early Wednesday, before being tackled by an assistant principal,
authorities said.
Source: Teen accused in stabbing rampage in Pa. school charged as adult
updated 5:51 PM EDT, Wed April 9, 2014
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW: 20 students and one adult were injured in the attack, the district attorney says
- The 16-year-old accused in the attack has been charged as an adult, a source says
- Teachers use students' hoodies as tourniquets on injured teens, student says
- An assistant principal tackled the accused attacker, authorities say
Twenty students and a
security officer at Franklin Regional Senior High School were injured in
the attack, District Attorney John Peck told reporters.
As authorities work to
piece together a possible motive, the accused attacker -- a 16-year-old
sophomore -- has been arraigned by a Pennsylvanian magistrate, said Dan
Stevens, deputy emergency management coordinator for Westmoreland
County.
The teen has been charged
as an adult, a source close to the investigation told CNN. The source,
speaking on condition of anonymity, said he has been charged with
attempted homicide.
A doctor who treated six of the victims, primarily teens, said most initially did not know what happened.
"They just felt pain and
noticed they were bleeding," Dr. Timothy VanFleet, chief of emergency
medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, told CNN.
"Almost all of them said
they didn't see anyone coming at them. It apparently was a crowded
hallway and they were going about their business, and then just felt
pain and started bleeding."
'Don't know what I got going down'
The carnage began shortly
before the start of classes, when an attacker began stabbing students
in a crowded hallway and then went from classroom to classroom.
Student Matt DeCesare
was outside the school when he heard a fire alarm ring and then saw two
students come out of the school covered in blood.
Then he saw teachers
running into the building and pulling "a couple of more students out,"
he told CNN. The students had been stabbed.
To stanch the bleeding, the teachers asked the students for their hoodies.
"We all took our hoodies off and handed them to the teachers to use as tourniquets to stop the bleeding," he said.
Recordings of emergency
calls released in the wake of the attack provide a soundtrack of sorts
to the terror and chaos that played out inside the school.
"I don't know what I got going down at school here but I need some units here ASAP," one officer can be heard saying.
Minutes later in another call, another official, breathlessly, can be heard detailing casualties: "About 14 patients right now."
Then another call for
help. "Be advised inside the school we have multiple stab victims," one
of the officers said. "So bring in EMS from wherever you can get them.
'Saw the kid who stabbing people'
Stabbing witness: Suspect looked crazy
Fire alarm was pulled during stabbing
Doctor: Stabbing injuries 'significant'
'Serious injuries' after school stabbing
Student Mia Meixner was standing at her locker.
"I heard a big commotion
like behind my back," she told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "And I turned around
and I saw two kids on the ground."
She thought a fight had broken out, but then she saw blood.
"I saw the kid who was stabbing people get up and run away," she said.
Meixner said she saw
three students help a bleeding freshman, saying they were taking him to a
nurse. Then she saw a senior girl she knew.
"She was standing by the cafeteria doors. ... She was gushing blood down her arm."
Meixner dropped her books and went to help the girl.
"I started hearing a
stampede of students coming down from the other end of the hall, saying
'Get out, we need to leave, go, there's a kid with a knife.' Then a
teacher came over to me and the girl I was trying to help. And she said
she would handle the girl and that I should run out. So then I just ran
out of the school and tried to get out as soon as possible."
Blitzer asked whether the stabbing suspect said anything.
"No. He was very quiet.
He just was kind of doing it," Meixner answered. "And he had this, like,
look on his face that he was just crazy and he was just running around
just stabbing whoever was in his way."
She said she didn't know
the boy, but he had been in a lot of her classes. "He kept to himself a
lot," she said. "He didn't have that many friends that I know of, but I
also don't know of him getting bullied that much. I actually never
heard of him getting bullied. He just was kind of shy and didn't talk to
many people."
Tackled by an assistant principal
Assistant Principal Sam King is being credited with bringing the carnage to an end.
King tackled the teen,
Peck told reporters. A school resource officer was able to handcuff the
suspect, Police Chief Thomas Seefeld said.
The accused teen, who
authorities have declined to immediately identify, was being treated for
injuries to his hands, the chief said.
Mark Drear, vice
president of the security company for the school, said one of his
officers was stabbed. The school had three security officers and a
full-time police officer Wednesday morning, he said.
Stevens identified the
police officer as William "Buzz" Yakshe, saying that he helped subdue
the suspect. Yakshe is "doing fine," Stevens said. "He's more upset than
anything else over what happened, because these are his kids."
Students stabbed at Pennsylvania school
Stabbings at Pennsylvania high school
A fire alarm that was
pulled during the attack probably helped get more people out of the
school during an evacuation order, Seefeld said. Students were running
everywhere and there was "chaos and panic."
At one point, a female
student applied pressure to the wounds of one of the male victims,
possibly helping to save his life, said Dr. Mark Rubino, chief medical
officer at Forbes Regional Hospital in nearby Monroeville, Pennsylvania,
where seven teenagers and one adult were taken.
That male teen helped by a fellow student was one of three teens taken into surgery at Forbes.
The adult being treated
there was not stabbed; he was suffering from an unspecified medical
condition, according to hospital officials.
Some injuries life-threatening
The teens' injuries are "quite serious," and "some are clearly life-threatening," said Dr. Chris Kaufmann of Forbes Regional.
They were stabbed in
their torso, abdomen, chest and back areas, and two people were sent to
surgery immediately after arriving, he said. Those two patients had low
blood pressure, he said.
The teens who are undergoing surgery suffered knife wounds, most to the lower abdomen, Rubino said.
Physicians are evaluating other patients to see if they need surgery as well, Kaufmann said.
Rubino said he expects
all the teens to live, noting that the strength of their youth gives
them a greater chance of survival. But "I do want to stress the critical
nature of their injuries," he cautioned.
Eleven victims were
taken to four University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospitals, UPMC
spokesman Cindy McGrath said. One was sent to UPMC Presbyterian; four
were taken to Children's Hospital; one was taken to UPMC Mercy; and five
were taken to UPMC East. She did not have ages or conditions of the
victims.
Six victims were released from UPMC hospitals, VanFleet said, and two were in intensive care.
The students who were hurt range in age from 14 to 17, Stevens said. All of the injuries are stabbing-related, such as lacerations or punctures, and there were no guns involved, he said.
'It doesn't happen here'
The attack in
Murrysville is the latest in a string of school violence that has
occurred across the nation. But mass stabbings, such as the one at the
high school, are rare.
The attack has rattled the town, an upper-middle-class enclave with a population of about 20,000.
A message on the Franklin Regional School District's website said all of its elementary schools were closed after the incident, and "the middle school and high school students are secure."
Franklin Regional Senior
High will be closed "over the next several days," district school
Superintendent Gennaro Piraino said. The district's middle school and
elementary schools will be open Thursday, and counseling will be
available for the whole district, he said.
Information on what led to the stabbings and the conditions of the injured are still unfolding.
On Wednesday morning, students were being released to their parents, Stevens said. Shortly before 10 a.m. ET, CNN affiliate KDKA reported that some parents were beginning to be reunited with their children.
Bill Rehkopf, a KDKA
radio host and Franklin Regional High School graduate, reported on air
that he was shocked by the stabbings.
He said he kept thinking, "It doesn't happen here, it can't happen here."
He said he was seeing parents showing up at the school and an increasing media presence. Parents appear to be calm, he said.
Another KDKA reporter
said she spoke with a parent who said she received a cell phone call
from her daughter, who told her mother that "something bad" happened and
that she needed to be picked up.
CNN first learned of the stabbings on Twitter.
CNN's Jason Hanna, Steve Almasy, Allison
Malloy, Stephanie Gallman, Leigh Remizowski, Debra Goldschmidt and
Shimon Prokupecz contributed to this report.
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