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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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