Pennsylvania Teen Stabbing Suspect to be Charged as an Adult

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Twenty students and a security officer at Franklin Regional Senior High School in Murrysville, Pa were either stabbed or slashed in an attack on Wednesday. A teenage boy went on a stabbing spree with two kitchen knives in the school hallway. The attacks stopped when the assistant principal Sam King tackled him.

“I’d expect nothing less from him….It feels good to know my dad saved the day,” his son said.

At least five students were critically injured, including a boy who was on a ventilator after a knife pierced his liver, missing his heart and aorta by only millimeters, doctors said.

The attacker has been identified as 16-year-old Alex Hribal. The courts have decided to try Hribal as an adult, and faces four counts of attempted homicide, 21 counts of aggravated assault, and one count of possession of a weapon on school grounds.

"I'm not sure he knows what he did, quite frankly," Hribal's attorney, Patrick Thomassey, said, adding he would file a motion to move the case to juvenile court.

Hribal is currently being held without bail at the Westmoreland County juvenile detention center.No details have been released about the motive in the attack, but the district attorney said in court the teen made "statements when subdued by officials that he wanted to die."

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."


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