Teen Stabs 4 Students, Worker and Himself, Canadian Police Say
A 15-year-old boy stabbed four students and a school employee Thursday and cut himself before handing the knife over to the principal, police said.
Witnesses said the youth, described as a loner, suddenly lashed out at the school worker and other students at Cairine Wilson High School in the Ottawa area. All five victims and the student with the knife were hospitalized. None had life-threatening wounds.
Rebecca Greenwood, 16, said one of the victims was “playing cards or something” when the attacker came from behind and “stabbed him in the back and the head.”
“He just stabbed the guy sitting closest to where he was coming from,” Greenwood said.
Police said the knife-wielding youth was under arrest and would be charged when released from the hospital.
The attack at the Ottawa high school occurred on the first anniversary of the Columbine High School killings in Littleton, Colo., although there was no immediate indication that the Thursday attack was linked.
Canadian schools have tightened security in recent weeks due to various threats of possible violence around the anniversary of last year’s shootings.
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