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A teen girl was stabbed Wednesday morning inside a classroom at San Ysidro High School in what San Diego police said was a targeted attack, and a student believed to be responsible was arrested on campus nearly two hours later.
The victim, a student believed to be around 15 or 16 years old, was stabbed multiple times in the upper torso around 9:15 a.m. and taken by ambulance to a hospital. Police said her wounds were not thought to be life-threatening.
After the stabbing, the assailant ran from the classroom. Police did not release any information on a possible motive or elaborate on the relationship between the two.
School officials placed the campus on Airway Drive on lockdown, and someone called 911. Police officers arrived within minutes and quickly began “clearing the campus” as they searched for the suspect, said police spokesperson Officer Colin Steinbroner.
Around 10:45 a.m., as officers were making a final search, a student was found and detained. Police said the boy was later determined to be the suspect, after a knife and clothing used in the incident were found in his possession.
Officials did not release the name of the suspect because he is a juvenile.
“This was an isolated incident, and there are no further threats to campus,” police spokesperson Lt. Cesar Jimenez said in a statement.
He said the lockdown was lifted, and instruction would resume as usual. Parents who wanted to pick up their children early were...
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