Sun Valley : Student Stabbed on Way to School
Two Francis Polytechnic High School sophomores on their way to summer classes Thursday morning were jumped by a crowd of suspected gang members and one was stabbed seven times and hospitalized, police said.
The injured 16-year-old, whose name was withheld, was in stable condition at Holy Cross Medical Center and scheduled to be transferred to the more secure County-USC Medical Center, Holy Cross spokesman Steve Rutledge said.
The attack was the second in a month by gang members at the campus. On June 23, Juan Corral, 17, was hit in the neck during a drive-by shooting.
In Thursday’s attack, a crowd of about seven teen-agers, dressed in gang style, surrounded the two Sun Valley students as they passed through the gardens outside the school about 8:30 a.m., Los Angeles Police Detective Mike Coffey said.
“For unknown reasons they knocked the two to the ground, punched, kicked and stabbed them,” Coffey said.
Los Angeles Unified School District police spokesman Patrick Spencer said the attackers used a screwdriver to stab the youth who was hospitalized. The other sophomore was not stabbed, and his wounds were treated by the school nurse, Spencer said.
The victims said their attackers were not students at the school and they denied being gang members themselves, Spencer said.
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