Attacker Sought After Campus Stabbing : Violence: A Fountain Valley High School senior is wounded during an argument that escalated into a fistfight. Four people have been arrested.

Police were looking Thursday for the man who stabbed a 17-year-old Fountain Valley High School student during a fight on the grounds.

School administrators called police to the campus about 2 p.m. Wednesday after the senior boy was assaulted just outside the administration building. Officers arrested four adults, aged 19 to 22, who had been involved in the fight, said Sgt. Darryl Nance. The suspect apparently had fled.

The stabbing is the latest in a series of violent events--including a killing--at or near high schools in Anaheim, Buena Park, Fullerton and Santa Ana since school began last month.

The Fountain Valley student who was stabbed was kept overnight at a local hospital, where he was treated for neck and back wounds. In an interview from his home, he expressed concern about safety on the campus, saying he is “kind of worried” that the assailants may “come back. (The school) should have better security.” Nevertheless, he said he plans to return to school shortly.

Security at the expansive, closed campus, according to Principal Gary D. Ernst, is “adequate if we have no problems. If problems develop it’s not adequate.”

Ernst said he would like to hire a peace officer to provide more security at the school, “but there is no money.” As many as eight school officials--five administrators and three campus aides--use walkie-talkies while patrolling the 2,600-student campus each day.

Violent incidents at the school are rare, agreed police, school and district officials.

In the last significant violent incident there, two students received minor injuries during a knife fight last December. Two people, one of whom was a student, were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, police said.

Wednesday’s fight, which police said was not gang-related, began when about five men came onto the campus shortly after 2 p.m., police said. The men argued with a group of male students, apparently over a female student; that escalated into a fistfight, which ended in the stabbing, according to police and witnesses.

The student who was stabbed said he was standing near the group of arguing men and “jumped in because a friend was getting hit.” He was then grabbed from behind and stabbed, he said.

Three of the men arrested were released with citations ordering them to appear in Municipal Court on charges of intimidating witnesses and trespassing on school grounds, Nance said.

Anh Duong, 21, of Fountain Valley was held in Orange County Jail on suspicion of possession of a stolen handgun, assault with a deadly weapon, and intimidating witnesses, police said. Bail was set at $25,000.

Supt. David Hagen, whose Huntington Beach Union High School District encompasses Fountain Valley, said that it is inevitable that growing violence in a community will eventually spill onto school campuses.

Hagen will meet Monday with district principals to discuss security and the stabbing, and later with the campuses’ vice principals who are in charge of discipline.

Meanwhile, the United Gangs Council, an Orange County group fighting the growth of gang violence in and near schools, proposed Thursday that gang members regard school property as neutral turf. The announcement was made at a news conference in Santa Ana, during which the council also suggested districts place civilian monitors at schools plagued by chronic violence.

Police and school administrators are concerned with the rise in violence at Orange County schools this year.

* Earlier this month, a 14-year-old girl was shot in the hand as she left Santa Ana’s Lathrop Intermediate School.

* On Sept. 18, a 15-year-old Fullerton High School student was fatally shot less than a block from school, as he walked home. Three people, including another Fullerton High student, have been charged in the slaying of Angel Gonzalez, which police called a racially motivated gang attack.

* On Sept. 11, two teen-agers were seriously wounded just outside Loara High School in Anaheim in what police described as a gang-related shooting.

* The same day, a 17-year-old Buena Park High School student was shot in the leg in an unrelated incident that occurred while he and a friend walked away from school.