Teen charged in fatal stabbing at Spring High School

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Source: Houston Chronicle

UPDATE:

The suspect appeared in probable-cause court early Thursday morning. He is being held in the Harris County Jail on $150,000 bond, according to county records.

ORIGINAL STORY:

The 3,000 students at Spring High School on Wednesday morning should have been scattering to their classes minutes before first period began at 7:15.

Instead, a fatal knife attack in a hallway outside the cafeteria meant thousands of students, faculty and staff members started their school day on lockdown in classrooms and offices.

Word of the horrific second-week-of-school incident washed over the north Harris County community as students contacted loved ones. By 10 a.m., emergency voice and text messages from Spring Independent School District officials hit parents' cellphones explaining that a bloody fight had turned deadly.

"There was a fatality," the alerts said. "Three students have been transported to the hospital for injuries."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/1-dead-3-injured-in-stabbing-at-Spring-High-4785678.php

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CNN is also covering this story as should other national outlets.

[tblue]

1. Thank goodness it wasn't a semi-auto firearm.

There would be more carnage.

[liberal N proud]

3. Surprised someone didn't have a gun

But notice how little attention this is getting? No one cares anymore about violence in the schools.

[Indydem]

4. No, people care

When the violence fits nicely into their agenda.

[valerief]

6. No one cares about schools. nt

[warrant46]

8. Yes and the assault on teacher's unions is disgusting

In certain states they are out to privatize education by funding "Private Academies"

[IveWornAHundredPants]

7. You couldf probably add a zero to each of those numbers if it had been a gun.

[kentauros]

2. UPDATED One Student Killed, Two Others Injured at Spring High School

Source: The Houston Press

Spaced City
UPDATED One Student Killed, Two Others Injured at Spring High School
By Craig Malisow Wed., Sep. 4 2013 at 9:45 AM

Update: Press conference: Sheriff Adrian Garcia confirms one 17-year-old dead and four injured. "We have three persons of interest that our investigators are interviewing....We believe that a confrontation of some sort occurred...this morning that ultimately led to a physical confrontation that then produced weapons...We have not recovered those weapons."

Garcia asked people with any information to contact HCSO or Crimestoppers.

"We do believe the suspects we have in custody...are the only persons of interest that we need to have in custody," he said. The suspects are students.

Two victims transported to Memorial Hermann-Northwest with "minor injuries."

(more, though older info, at link)

[valerief]

5. If only they had guns. Gungeoneer logic. nt

[marshall]

9. Students shouldn't be allowed to bring knives to school

I know that back in the day every boy carried a pocketknife around for whittling or random tasks, but those innocent days are long over.