24 injured in knife attack at Franklin Regional High School

The final update today on this exhausting and depressing story..

24 now have been hurt.. No one is dead—no one is dead!

There are even selfies making news tonight as one survivor took a snapshot of himself in the aftermath in the hospital..

We also know this: The suspect, Alex Hribal, a 16-year-old sophomore, was taken into custody after being wrestled to the floor of a school hallway and disarmed by a security guard and a school administrator.. And he is being charged as an adult.

We are being told by some tonight that Hribal was ‘not well liked.’

More heroism.. more acts of bravery..

There are also stories of students helping other students pressing down on wounds to cut the bleeding, begging others who were stabbed to hold on to life..

Again.. bravery.

And finally.. A Wikipedia page has already been created..

Selfies and Wikipedia.. the modern age.

24 injured in knife attack at Franklin Regional High School

News now that the Franklin regional high school stabber was a sophomore boy

Emergency management officials have also said the principal had an altercation of some sort the boy, that the stabbings took place in the classroom and hallway, and that the school resource officer was the one who eventually handcuffed the sophomore after he stabbed at least 20 people ages 14 through 60..

Some more information being reported on the Franklin Regional massacre

Rumors at this point.. no information is verified, but there are some interesting tweets and pieces of information now coming to light:

The suspect has been taken into custody..

The FBI is on the scene..

One report: Assistant Principal wrestled 2 knives away from suspect..

No metal detectors at HS; student had 2 knives..

MORE COMING

Governor Corbett Issues Statement on Franklin Regional High School Stabbing

Governor Corbett Issues Statement on Franklin Regional High School Stabbing

Why no statement from the White House or any officials on this Pittsburgh stabbing??

Silence is deafening so far.. 

I suspect if it was a school shooting, there’d be a stronger reaction from D.C.

Seven teenagers and an adult were taken to Forbes Regional Hospital, Dr. Chris Kauffman, the trauma director there, told CNN. The seven were stabbed in the chest, back and abdomen, he said. He characterized some of the injuries as life-threatening.

Some of the students were in the operating room, others undergoing CT scans, he said.

“These are quite serious injuries,” he said. “These are not superficial in nature.”

One hospital reported that it had a patient as old as 60.

Latest NBC report on this emotionally overwhelming story..

Multiple students stabbed in Pittsburgh are in surgery..

CNN is reporting that several of the children have ‘deep stab wounds’ and that multiple hospitals have some in surgery—life threatening wounds are being tended to. 

DEVELOPING..

A multiple stabbing situation is developing at a Pittsburgh PA area high school

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.

NBC reports in full:

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.