Two Students Murdered At High Schools
Warren Michigan police say that two straight-A students got into an altercation over a boy and a 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death in class.
The student was stabbed twice in the chest by another teenage girl during a fight apparently over a boy at a suburban Detroit high school, police said.
Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer said the deadly clash between the two “straight-A students” took place in a Fitzgerald High School classroom Wednesday morning.
A school resource officer immediately began life-saving procedures, but the victim was pronounced dead at a hospital about an hour later. Dwyer said the 17-year-old suspect used a steak knife.
“This is truly a tragedy. … This appears to be an altercation between two students and we’re investigating to determine why this occurred,” Dwyer said.
Dwyer said the girls knew each other and had no history of trouble. He suggested the dispute was over a male student who is cooperating with the investigation.
The suspect was taken into custody at the scene, and Dwyer said authorities will seek a murder charge.
The victim was on the school robotics team, student council, ran cross country and played in the marching band, Dwyer said.
School officials say they are working with police and conducting an internal review that includes safety procedures.
An 18-year-old man died after he was shot Tuesday afternoon outside a North Las Vegas high school, officials said.
North Las Vegas police began receiving “hundreds” of calls at 2:39 p.m. of shots fired near Canyon Springs High School, acting Chief Justin Roberts said during a Tuesday afternoon news briefing outside the school. Police determined that the man was shot near the northwest property line, behind the fencing of a baseball field.
He died at University Medical Center. Police and school officials didn’t confirm whether the man was a student at the school.
The North Las Vegas Police Department responded and received support from multiple fire departments, school police and the Metropolitan Police Department, Roberts said.
“The response was exactly how it should be,” Roberts said.
No suspect was in custody as of Tuesday night. Roberts said police were interviewing witnesses but were not ready to release information on a possible shooter.
