Multiple people stabbed at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pa.; conditions unknown; suspect in custody, police say.. not a school shooting—a school stabbing.. It happened at 7:15 am, about 15 minutes after the high school opened. Middle school is secure. Knives don’t stab people, people stab people.
Emergency crews raced to a high school outside Pittsburgh on Wednesday morning after a report of multiple stabbings. A county official said that as many as six people were reported injured.
A suspect was in custody, Dan Stevens, a Westmoreland County emergency management spokesman, told NBC News.
The stabbings were reported at Franklin Regional High School, in the suburb of Murrysville.
WPXI, the NBC affiliate in Pittsburgh, reported that hospitals had been told to expect patients. The first injury calls came in about 7:15 a.m., about 15 minutes after the school doors opened for the day, the station reported.
The school district website said that high school students and middle school students nearby were “secure,” and that elementary school had been canceled for the day. The cited “a critical incident” at the high school.
Streets around the school were sealed off.
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