2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
A 13-year-old boy stabbed a teacher in the middle of the school with a butcher knife and then threatened another student, causing panic and closing the Georgia campus.
The events occurred in the vicinity of Trickum High School, which belongs to the Gwinnett County Public Education District.
The victim's father, Michael Seiden, told WSB-TV Atlanta that the boy said, “He had something to give to her but that he was too big to take away. [He had] a surprise to give him. So she walked over to her desk. He rummaged in his backpack and took out a knife and stabbed her,”the man explained.
Her daughter was rushed to the Gwinnett Medical Center where she arrived consciously and speaking to paramedics.
Sloan Roach, a school district spokesperson confirmed to ABC that the incident occurred inside an eighth grade classroom.
"He grabbed another student and put the knife to his face," said Steven Watler, one of the students who witnessed the scene on the WSB network in Atlanta. "He said if someone was videotaping him he was going to kill him."
The young man said he helped distract the suspect by getting a school guard to come to the classroom and arrest him.
"I saw that [the teacher] was bleeding so I inspected and took off my jacket to put it on the part that was bleeding," said Watler. The teenager confesses that the alleged perpetrator of the attack had previously expressed wishes to "kill someone". "I think I should have reported what he said so that he could speak to a counselor or something," he lamented.
After what happened, the police chief, Tony Thomas, ordered a closure of the campus that was subsequently lifted. The classes continued not without first expressing to the students and parents that psychological help would be available for the students and additional protection from the police.
"We have never had a situation like this at our school," said Ryan Queen, the school's principal. "I ask that you keep our teacher wounded in your mind and in your prayers."
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