Canadian High School Student in Custody After Stabbing Eight People – blogged by: @proudlylauren

A female student is in custody after eight people were stabbed in a high school in Ontario, Canada.

According to Durham Regional Police Sergeant Bill Calder, officers were called to Dunbarton High School in Pickering, Ontario around 8:30 am Tuesday morning. According to the caller, a female student was seen waving two steak knives down the hallways of the high school.  Six students and two staff members sustained injuries. One of the victims had serious injuries, but none of the victims’ injuries were considered life-threatening, police say.

“I saw a girl with two knives, steak knives, and she was holding one above the other. She was maybe a metre away from me,” said 14 year old Kristina Petrovska, who witnessed the attacks.

A frightened 14 year old came face-to-face with the suspect, who slashed the knives at her and other students. “I just ran for my life,” she said. “I just can’t believe it happened. She almost got me.”

Another witness, 16 year old Stephen Pim said he saw a girl with a long black coat chasing students in the hall waving a kitchen knife in each hand.

“I heard the teachers say ‘clear the halls’ so I started to run outside informing people that there’s a student with a knife, you need to get to safety,” the students said in a text message as he sat in a locked classroom inside the school.

Police have not released the name or age of the student taken into custody, but Calder said she is in the younger grades, and that the attack was seemingly random.

Two staff members ended the spree when they tackled the student and held her until police arrived. Charges are pending, but Calder would not comment on which ones she might face.

The school is no longer on lockdown and police have left the campus.  More details are expected later in the day.

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