[Josiah.]

BREAKING NEWS

MURRYSVILLE, Pa. —As many as 20 people may be injured at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, where a student began stabbing people at the start of the school day on Wednesday morning, according to Westmoreland County emergency management.

One of the patients has been flown to a hospital in a medical helicopter. Forbes Regional Hospital in Monroeville has taken five of the other patients.

The severity of the injuries is not known.

Police have one person in custody but have not released that person's name yet.

Several police cars and ambulances are at the high school. Three medical helicopters are also there.

A student reported that someone came into the school with a knife and started slashing people, including some of his friends. That information has not been confirmed by police.

A woman told Pittsburgh's Action News 4 that her son was in the hall, getting ready for class, when he heard screaming and saw someone stabbing students.

Students have begun to come out of the building and are gathered around an entrance while emergency responders remain at the scene and police officers check the school room by room.

School buses are lined up on the campus, waiting to take students home for the day.

A parent said she was told by a school security employee that middle school students will be dismissed first and bused home. Meanwhile, the high school remains on lockdown until the school can safely dismiss those students.


Read more: http://www.wtae.com/news/stabbing-at...#ixzz2yORxHtcj

[T*]

Jesus, this is horrid

[Josiah.]

Tom. It is horrid. I'll be updating this thread with new info as it comes in.

[T*]

Don't you live in Pittsburgh?

[Josiah.]

Yes I do.

UPDATE (from WTAE's Jackie Shafer): 8 people at Forbes Regional Hospital (7 Teens, 1 Adult). "Half of the vics being treated at Forbes have life-threading injuries. All stabbed to either chest or torso"

[arista]

Must be "another mental person"

[arista]

Its like a NCIS movie

[arista]

All victims are 14-17-year-old students.

[Josiah.]

Arista, thanks for posting more pictures of this.

[Josiah.]

Tweets from WTAE's Janelle Hall and Jackie Shafer.

"Breaking: #FranklinRegionalstabbing: of the 20 victims- 1 adult & 7 teens (ages 15-17) are at Forbes Hospital
acc'd to @JackieWTAE" - Janelle Hall (@JanelleHallWTAE)

"Although the medical term is "life-threatening" Hospital CEO tells me he expects all victims here at Forbes to survive." - Jackie Shafer (@JackieWTAE)

[Shaun]

I suppose it does dampen the claims that all these sprees are just because of US gun laws. I wonder if it's because of the media's insistence on covering the killer rather than the victims, they become antiheros and such.

[Josiah.]

UPDATE: All 20 people stabbed are at 6 different hospitals in the Pittsburgh area. The suspect (age 16, 10th grade) is now in custody.

[gibberace]

cant even blame guns this time. so sad.

[arista]

the Arrested 16 year old Mental Punk

[Josiah.]

He got the knife into the school because there are no metal detectors at the school.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Josiah.

He got the knife into the school because there are no metal detectors at the school.

Big Error

[LeatherTrumpet]

Looks like he could not get a gun so had to use a knife. I would imagine he could be psychopathic.

[arista]

'Quiet kid': Friends described Alex Hribal as shy and quiet and were shocked to hear he was the stabbing suspect

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2yQpMKSBR

[Nedusa]

Originally Posted by arista

'Quiet kid': Friends described Alex Hribal as shy and quiet and were shocked to hear he was the stabbing suspect

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2yQpMKSBR

He looks barely able to stab himself out of a paper bag.

[Marsh.]

Always the quiet ones.

[Marsh.]

[lostalex]

The fact that he didn't even manage to kill ONE SINGLE PERSON is a pretty strong argument for more gun control. If he had had(sorry) an automatic gun, imagine how many people would be dead?