A high school student in New York state was caught on video repeatedly stabbing a fellow student in the back and hands before teachers stepped in to break it up.
What are the details?
Police in Utica told WKTV-TV the altercation took place at Proctor High School on Monday morning. Police added to the station that a 17-year-old student was stabbing an 18-year-old student in a hallway, and staff members were able to intervene, with one taking the knife away.
Nursing staff helped the victim, who was stabbed multiple times in the back and hands, WKTV said. The victim was taken to a hospital; police told the station his injuries aren’t considered life-threatening.
The 17-year-old student is facing attempted assault and criminal possession of a weapon charges, WKTV reported.
‘Drop the knife, bro!’
Cellphone video of the knife attack shows a student in a red shirt jogging down a hallway and swinging from behind at a student in a blue shirt.
The student in the blue shirt pulled the attacking student in the red shirt to the hallway floor as other students began calling out, “He’s got knife! He’s got a knife!”
The two students wound up standing against a wall and struggling for control of the weapon as other students yelled, “Drop the knife, bro!”
The staffer who took possession of the knife then yelled at another staffer to “get over here!”
When a second staffer arrived, he grabbed the victim in the blue shirt and took him down to the floor away from the attacker, presumably not aware of which student did the stabbing.
It isn’t clear what, if anything, preceded the knife attack. In addition, just before the attacking student jogged up behind the victim, the attacking student appeared to look back in the direction of the individual who was recording video.
WATCH THE VIDEO OF THE INCIDENT BELOW:
Today at Proctor High School in Utica, NY. Student stabbed multiple times by a classmate. pic.twitter.com/r5qP4gTE3t
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 1, 2022
Attempted assault, hmm, it looked pretty successful to me,,, maybe attempted murder?