Five Students Stabbed at Utah High School
Police say a 16-year-old boy was taken into custody after the stabbings.
Students at a high school in Orem, Utah say five teens were stabbed in the boy’s locker room of the school.
Junior Karen Martinez says she saw one injured teen running toward the school’s office with a head wound and another with a neck wound.
Police say a 16-year-old boy was taken into custody after the stabbings and the victims’ conditions range from critical to fair. All of the victims were male.
Sophomore Paxton Ransom says he saw blood on the locker room floor and thought it was fake until he saw a person who had been stabbed on the floor. He ran into the gym’s weight room.
Students were allowed to go back to classes or leave with their parents after the hour-long lockdown. Dozens of frightened parents arrived to pick up their kids.
