Terrorists in China attack a train station with knives

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Muslim separatists in China attacked a train station in Kunming Province.  29 people were killed, and over 130 were wounded when a group of men swooped upon unsuspecting patrons of the train station and began slashing.

Those who were slow to react were often the victims, as the men seemed to be targeting at random.

Four were shot and killed by police, and one was arrested.

Fatal stabbing at Houston high school

Houston, TX

A student was fatally stabbed at Spring High School in Houston.  Three other students were injured in what may have been a gang-related incident.  The stabbing occurred in a hallway leading to the cafeteria right before school began.

A 17-year old student is being held for questioning.

The school is cancelled for the rest of the week.

School Threat Compilation 4

Since the Sandy Hook Elementary attack on 12/14/12, the media has become awash in related news stories.  Rather than make individual posts, I’ve created a compilation.

School violence rumors could reduce attendance on Friday - By KeungHui

Boy, 15, plotted shooting at California school, police say- Arizona student found with gun in backpack at school - FOX News

Arrest made at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Virginia - JusticeNewsFlash.com

Stabbing at Vine Middle School sends 8th grader to hospital - WVLT

WATCH: Vet Voluntarily Guards Kids' School After Newtown Shooting - The Huffington Post

Man in camouflage attempts school entry - UPI

Study: 121 U.S. school attacks thwarted - TheDenverChannel.com

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Marrero Teen Booked in Stabbing at John Ehret High School

Marrero, LA
A 17-year-old John Ehret High School student was booked after stabbing another student with scissors on campus Monday morning, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office has announced. Ayesha Majeer, of 6433 Rue Louis Phillipe, Marrero, was booked with one count each of aggravated battery and illegal carrying of a concealed weapon.

The injured 15-year-old student was reported in stable condition at Interim LSU Public Hospital with with non-life threatening injuries.

A teacher reported the incident around 7:15 a.m. to Detective Brian Johnson, who is assigned to the campus at 4300 Patriot Ave. The teacher said a student was stabbed in a fight outside the school cafeteria.

Johnson's investigation revealed the altercation stemmed from an ongoing problem between Majeer and the unidentified student over a friend. Majeer allegedly told Johnson the victim approached her and began arguing with her. Majeer allegedly admitted after she was confronted, she took scissors from her book bag and stabbed the victim several times.

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Student Stabbed at Silver Spring High School

Silver Spring, WA
A student is in custody following after a stabbing at Northwood High School in Silver Spring.

Chidat Tarawally, age 18, of the 12500 block of Winexburg Manor Drive in Silver Spring, was charged with first and second degree assault and with possessing a weapon on school property.

Authorities said the stabbing may have been due to a dispute Tarawally and the victim had last week, Pat News4's Collins reports.

The incident happened around 11 a.m. Monday in or near the cafeteria. The victim received a non-life-threatening "puncture wound," authorities said. They later said the weapon appeared to be a knife.

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Student Stabs Another, Self at Dr. Phillips High

Orlando, FL
An emergency medical crew and investigators were called to Dr. Phillips High School over a student-involved stabbing early Monday.

Investigators said Antonio Acevedo and a female student, both 17, were arguing before Acevedo cut the young woman with a pocket knife. He then cut himself, according to Orlando Police Department officers.

"Apparently, he cuts her and then cuts himself," said OPD Sgt. Vince Ogburn. "Both were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. So, a cut is a cut. They are juveniles so we have to take them to the hospital to get them evaluated."

Ogburn said the students, who are boyfriend and girlfriend, are expected to make a full recovery. The couple had been dating for three years.

The incident occurred in the school parking lot.

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Gunfire, Stabbing Reported at NY Football Game

Baldwin, NY
Gunshots and a stabbing have marred a high school football game on Long Island.

Nassau County police say the annual homecoming game at Baldwin High School was suspended at around 8:30 p.m. Friday when a 20-year-old man was stabbed and someone fired gunshots in the school's parking lot.

No one was hit by the gunfire, but a car window was smashed.

Police said the stabbing victim's injuries were not life-threatening.

Baldwin School district spokeswoman Christina Schmohl tells Newsday (http://bit.ly/RE8sPF ) that police and school security had the stadium evacuated as a precaution.

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Investigation into Stabbing at Oklahoma City School Launched

Oklahoma City, OK
An investigation is under way after a student at Roosevelt Middle School stabbed another student on Monday.

According to a written statement by Oklahoma City Public School officials, a boy in eighth grade was stabbed in the upper lip by a student in the seventh grade during lunchtime.

"The school's resource officer and building administrators responded to the incident quickly and defused the situation," the OKCPS statement said.

Administrators say they have no clue how the student was able to bring two knives into the school that requires those entering the building to walk through metal detectors. The student has been suspended from the school for one year and could face assault charges after being arrested by police.

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Teen Charged with Killing Principal Competent

Memphis, TN
A 17-year-old boy charged with fatally stabbing his high school principal is competent to stand trial, his lawyer said Thursday.

Leslie Ballin said a doctor informed him that there were no issues of competency or sanity in a mental evaluation of his client, Eduardo Marmolejo.

Marmolejo has pleaded not guilty to adult first-degree murder charges in the stabbing of Suzette York in August 2011. York, 49, was Marmolejo's principal at Memphis Junior Academy, a private school affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

York's body was found in a pool of blood in a classroom on the third day of school. An autopsy showed she had cuts to her head and neck.


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High School Student Stabbed To Death After Fight

Manhattan, NY
Police say the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old student Thursday in Manhattan stemmed from a dispute between two girls.

Investigators say 19-year-old Theodore Beckles was involved in a fight outside of a building on West 56th Street in Hell's Kitchen, which houses both the High School for Environmental Studies and Independence High School.

The Department of Education tells NY1 that Beckles was arguing with a student from Environmental when he was stabbed.

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Student Injured in Baltimore School Stabbing

Baltimore, MD
One student was injured in a stabbing during an altercation at a Baltimore City school.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said there was a stabbing at Heritage High School on St. Lo Drive in northeast Baltimore.

School officials said a student sustained a stab wound to his upper body following a confrontation with a fellow student around 10:45 a.m. Monday.

Officials said the student was treated by the school nurse and transported to Johns Hopkins Hospital where he is listed in stable condition.

Brownsburg HS Followup

Brownsburg, IN
An incident with a student that prompted a police presence and lockdown at Brownsburg High School Monday morning involved a student who punched himself in the eye, school officials said Monday afternoon.

Officers were initially called to the school to investigate a possible stabbing, but the student later told officials he scraped off scabs from initial cuts caused by a dog. He also said he struck himself in the face to injure his eye.

Police say the student entered a school bathroom at 8:45 a.m. At 8:50 a.m., the student exited the bathroom and fell to the floor. The student was taken to IU Health Methodist Hospital for a swollen left eye, four cuts on the face, and one cut on the lower back.

BREAKING: Brownsburg High School on Lockdown

Brownsburg, IN
Police were called to Brownsburg High School Monday following an incident there.

The school is on lockdown. Witnesses tell Fox59 that students are inside classrooms with doors shut and lights out. Parents who contacted Fox59 said there was a stabbing at the school. Sources told Fox59 the stabbing happened inside the school building.

Two Different High School Football Games Ended In Fans Fleeing The Stands Because Of Violence

In Chicago, either a stabbing or a shooting (details are still sketchy) at Simeon vs. Morgan Park High School; in Naples, Florida, players from Immokalee went into the stands to deal with some persistent hecklers after a loss to Naples High.
According naplesnews.com,

Emotions spilled over for Immokalee as the final horn sounded. As teams prepared to line up to shake hands, several Indians coaches and players jumped the fence behind their sideline and rushed into the visitors stands in response to being heckled by their own fans.

A different type of fracas broke out in Chicago at roughly the same time:

From the press box, everything seemed normal, with both sides totally into the game, before the melee began.  Suddenly a wave of fans on the Morgan Park sidelines started running out of the stands, apparently trying to get out of the stands as fast as possible.
The commotion quickly caught the attention of the game's officials, who stopped play as players from both teams sprinted for the sidelines.
Someone in the press box ordered the lights to be put out during the melee, and a person could be heard yelling: "Get down, get down - shots, get down, shots."
Police could not immediately confirm if shots actually were fired.

One person with a stab wound was taken to a local hospital. They're replaying the game tomorrow. Simeon is the same high school future 30-For-30 subject Ben Wilson attended when he was shot and killed in 1984. The lesson, as always, is that if you're going to go to a high school football game, keep your head down and for God's sake, don't go around yelling at people.

Dearborn Heights Police Identify Woman Stabbed Thursday Night as 33-Year-Old DPS Teacher

Dearborn Heights, MI
Dearborn Heights Police are still investigating the killing. They say Dupree’s husband called 911 and told them a home invader had stabbed his wife.  Police arrived minutes later.  They aren’t releasing details, but what they found led them to arrest Nytia Dupree’s 38-year-old husband.  He is in jail, but has not yet been charged with a crime.

“What he told police, did not match up to evidence at the scene,” said Dearborn Heights Police Capt. Jeff Seipenko.

La Puente High School Student Injured in Stabbing

La Puente, CA
A La Puente high school student was stabbed three times after an altercation with another student Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

The incident, which left one student stabbed in the face, neck and chest, took place just before 3 p.m. at Bassett High School, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

The injured student was taken to County+USC Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. He was in stable condition.

Authorities were still looking for the suspect.

The two male students who were involved were age 16 and 17, and both were believed to be in 11th grade.

Bassett Unified School District Superintendent Martin Galindo said that the two students had been involved in a "verbal altercation" on Tuesday but did not alter school officials. He said he was unaware of any gang connection the students might have had.

"After dismissal today, as students were leaving, the two male students started fighting, and one student pulled knife and stabbed the other student on the cheek," Galindo said. "The perpetrator started running."

The stabbing happened with school security and administrators nearby, he said.

Quebec Teen Pleads Guilty after High School Stabbing

Quebec, Canada
After a student was stabbed several times at a high school near Trois Rivières, a 16-year-old boy pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted murder.

The youth is accused of bringing a kitchen knife to L'Escale, a Louiseville high school, on the morning of Nov. 14. He then confronted a 16-year-old boy, who he claims had been bullying him, and the two began fighting, the court was told.

In the struggle, court heard, the teen pulled out a knife and stabbed his classmate in the face, the throat and the ribs, puncturing the victim's lung and cutting his jugular vein. Three students and an adult jumped in to subdue the attacker.

Two Arrested in Stabbing at Miramonte Elementary School

Fresno, CA
Two people are under arrest after a stabbing at a Fresno park two weeks ago.


The Clovis Police Department says 32-year-old Sorn Moua and a 17-year-old juvenile went up to a man playing soccer at Miramonte Elementary School, asked him if he was a gang member, then stabbed him. The victim was able to get away and called police.

Gilroy Police Seek Men Involved in Apparent Gang-Related Screwdriver Stabbing

Gilroy, CA

Police are seeking a pair of young men in connection with a Sunday stabbing that they believe was gang related.

According to police, the 25-year-old victim was walking on the soccer field behind South Valley Jr. High School on I.O.O.F. Avenue around 6:30 p.m. when he was approached by two men who asked him if he was affiliated with a gang.

One of the men then took a screwdriver out of his backpack and stabbed the victim one time before fleeing.

The man's injury was not life-threatening, police said, and he declined medical treatment.

Colleges See Street-Like Incidents of Black-on-Black Violence

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Many African American parents fear that the same violence they worry will affect their young adult children on the streets at home will find them in their quest for higher education. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 93 percent of the 9,000 blacks murdered in 2007, were killed by other blacks. Blacks are six times more likely to be victims of violent crimes than whites and eight times more likely to be the perpetrator, the report said.

Though college campuses don’t have the same level of violence as urban streets, some of the same kinds of crimes occur there, experts said—shootings, stabbings and assaults as a result of senseless disagreements and perceived slights. Even some students who are high academic achievers resort to street behavior when faced with a conflict at college, experts said.