Several people reportedly stabbed at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville

[spinbaby]

Source: WTAE Pittsburgh

MURRYSVILLE, Pa. —At least six people have been injured in a reported stabbing Wednesday morning at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, according to Westmoreland County emergency management.


One of the patients has been flown to a hospital in a medical helicopter. Forbes Regional Hospital in Monroeville is taking several of the other patients.

Several police cars and ambulances are at the school. Three medical helicopters are also there, ready to transport any of the injured.




Read more: http://www.wtae.com/news/stabbing-at-franklin-regional-high-school-in-murrysville/25391318

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Thank goodness the kid didn't have a gun.

[Helen Borg]

1. Terrible...

Now wait for the gun lobbyists to point out that guns are not the reason why these things happen after all.

[derby378]

9. Trying to be cutesy won't ease the pain of the stabbing victims one bit

I suggest we all give these kids a little time before going all indignant.

[joeglow3]

14. Wow. Did you want to race them to politicize the event?

If so, you win!

[DocMac]

2. Been watching the local news

since this started. Now they are saying as many as 20 are injured, none life threatening.

The suspect is a student and in custody.

[spinbaby]

3. Hello fellow Pittsburgher

[DocMac]

4. Good morning!

[slingsam]

5. That's my school district

Both my boys graduated from there.....and I live half a mile from there......in Murrysville.

[spinbaby]

8. I went to high school there, too

But that was more than 40 years ago. I understand from the news that they now have a "science wing."

[slingsam]

26. They're one of the top schools around here

Kids from there just won a Second place finish in a competitive national robotics contest

[Nanjing to Seoul]

6. cue gun humpers demanding knives be banned in 5,4,3,2,1. . .

[Jgarrick]

12. Those pushing for restrictions on knives are civilian disarmament advocates, not

(as you so charmingly put it) "gun humpers".

[Nanjing to Seoul]

21. i'm not the only person who uses gun humpers on DU.

[Jgarrick]

30. The slur is quite common here, I'll give you that.

[MillennialDem]

10. Please stop with the meme of knives being not dangerous

I'm no gun defender by any means (hate the things) but knives can cause just as much (maybe more actually) damage to a human body as guns can. The only advantage is guns can do it from far away.

[wheniwasincongress]

16. But

knives and other non-shooting objects can be removed from the hand and blocked; guns don't require close contact with another person to cause damage...

[MillennialDem]

20. Good luck getting a knife out of a person's hand 1v1. In fact at CLOSE range self defense experts

will tell you that disarming a gun is easier than disarming a knife. The trick is of course being at close range.

If you are faced against someone with a knife and you are unarmed, you are screwed unless you can run faster than them.

[Renew Deal]

11. Is it appropriate to insert your political views into a story like this?

[Daemonaquila]

15. Thank you.

Bad crap happens and people get hurt. 3... 2... 1... cue the pro-gun and anti-gun crowd to immediately make it about THEIR favorite issue.

[Hip_Flask]

17. Never waste a good crisis...

Said every person with an axe to grind... ever...

[LiberalEsto]

13. UPDATE: I heard on the radio that it may be as many as 20 victims

four of whom are "very critical". This is from WNEW-FM 99.1 (a CBS station)in Washington DC.

"Dan Stevens with Westmoreland Emergency Management says 20-students have been injured, four of those are serious. "

Link from WNEW to the Pittsburgh CBS station:
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/04/09/multiple-students-reported-stabbed-at-franklin-regional-high-school/

[happyslug]

32. The Post Gazette is reporting 20 victims, most are minor, four are serious.

n/t

[joeglow3]

18. Way to use the poor kids lying in a hospital

Glad they could be of use to your political crusade.

[brentspeak]

22. I don't see the OP running for office, do you?

Considering the NRA and the other gun idiots are 100% political entities, yours has to qualify as Dumb Post of the Day.

[Helen Borg]

23. I have to agree with that

[joeglow3]

24. Wow. Someone else politicizing 20 kids in a hospital agrees...

Shocker.

[joeglow3]

25. Speaking of dumb post

You think only politicians and political entities can speak politics?

[IronLionZion]

19. The desire to hurt lots of people is a major problem in our country

regardless of weapon or whatever. This is terrifying.

[bigworld]

28. This crazy need to out-do people is insane

Everything is a competitive sport.

[awoke_in_2003]

34. And we have almost no

public funding for mental health.

[JEFF9K]

27. It's funny how all of these attacks seem to help the gun-huggers.

[spinbaby]

29. Just talked to a friend with a son in that school

He's okay, thank goodness.

I went to that high school, so this hits pretty close to home for me. It doesn't surprise me in the least to learn that the kid doing the stabbing was bullied.

[happyslug]

31. That School is in Westmoreland County, right on the Allegheny Count line

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/westmoreland/2014/04/09/Multiple-stabbings-reported-at-Franklin-Regional-High-School/stories/201404090148


http://www.post-gazette.com/

Franklin Area School District borders Allegheny County (Allegheny County's County Seat is the City of Pittsburgh).



http://www.wiu.k12.pa.us/domain/32

Web Site of Franklin Regional School District:
http://www.franklinregional.k12.pa.us/

Message on the School District's Web Site:

After a critical incident at Franklin Regional Senior High School this morning, the campus was locked down. Elementary classes were cancelled and high school students were evacuated to the middle school. Law enforcement are working with the school district to manage the situation.
Middle school and high school students will only be dismissed to parents. Parents should report to Heritage Elementary for reunification. All parents will need to sign out students before dismissal. As parents arrive at Heritage Elementary, staff members will escort middle school and high school students to the building for reunification. Any high school student who drove to school will not be permitted to drive home without a parent.

Staff members should work together and follow the directions of administrators and law enforcement to reunify students.

Thank you,

Mary Catherine Reljac

[Tom Ripley]

33. Gun humpers love it when people get all stabby; expect to hear their shopworn rhetoric soon

[Skittles]

35. aw, they've already gone through it

they can go back to being relieved Zimmy is still free