NEW YORK (AP) – A high school student who’d been fighting with two classmates suddenly attacked them with a switchblade during history class Wednesday, killing one boy and gravely wounding another, police said.
The melee unfurled about 15 minutes into third period at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation, a middle and high school in the Bronx, the New York Police Department said.
Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said the 18-year-old suspect stabbed a 15-year-old once in the chest and a 16-year-old in the chest and side. The 15-year-old died at a hospital, while the 16-year-old is in critical but stable condition.
The 18-year-old then walked out into the hallway, where he met a counselor and handed her a bloodied switchblade, police said. He went to the assistant principal’s office and quietly sat waiting for the authorities to arrive, Boyce said.
About 15 to 20 other students were in the classroom at the time of the stabbing, but no one else was injured, Boyce said.