Denver (KDVR) – A young girl was taken to hospital after a stab incident at the Aurora Science and Tech Middle School, According to the Aurora police service.
The police said that two girls had participated in a dispute on the athletics grounds, which degenerated when one of the students produced a knife, and one of the girls stabbed the other.
The police told Fox31 that the suspect was in police custody and that the victim had serious but not deadly injuries. They said that the knife used was “essentially a bordered kitchen type knife”.
The department still does not know what has led to combat, but interviews witnesses.
The college campus was on a secure perimeter on Wednesday. We do not know if the high school campus, which shares the facilities, is also on a secure perimeter. Campus is one of the eight of the DSST public school networkwhich is a school network in Charter in Denver and Aurora.
A DSST public school officials told Fox31 that the two girls are college students and said the two students were safe. The manager said that the DSST followed closely all the necessary security procedures and the orientations of the APS laws and security and security.
The victim of the stab wounds was transported to a local hospital with serious injuries and the suspect of stabs was detained. Aurora police have provided an update on Wednesday afternoon that the stab wound suspect was arrested for a serious assault.
Wyatt Staples, a campus student, spoke to Kasia Kerridge of Fox31 with her father, Marty Staples.
“I was in class and we were about to go and go home, then the teacher told us that we had to stay for five minutes, but it turned out that we had to stay for 20 minutes,” said Wyatt. “They said we could call our parents and let them know what’s going on … A little later, they said that on the speaker, everything is clear and that they were going to reject high school and then they were going to reject college.”
Wyatt told Kerridge that he was not afraid, just confused with what was going on. Marty said that the school was doing a good job to keep informed families, and that he is comfortable sending her son there again. However, he experienced a range of emotions on Wednesday.
“Nerous, worried, frightened. You never want to hear something like your child, but I’m glad they took measures quickly and took care of it,” said Marty.