Onate High School Student Stabbed
Las Cruces Public School District officials say a 16-year-old Onate High School freshman was stabbed in the abdomen.
It happened in the school?s back parking lot, on the east side of the building around 3:30 Monday afternoon.
A student told ABC-7 this was the last thing he ever expected to see on school grounds.
?It is a very scary situation,? Daniel Parra said.
Students crowded around emergency vehicles moments after district officials say the 16-year-old was stabbed.
A lot of the specifics are still unknown, but police say the victim was believed to be fighting with another Onate freshman at the time.
It is against LCPS policy to have or use any weapon on school grounds and could result in expulsion, officials said.
Parra says the stabbing made him realize it?s impossible to know what others are capable of doing.
“It’s a high school and being teenagers and being scared about not knowing what’s going on, not going what else is going to happen, if it’s a personal thing or kinda a random stabbing, we don’t really know,? Parra said.
The stabbing victim was transported to University Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
A student believed to have been involved in the fight is being questioned, along with a number of other witnesses but no arrests have been made as of Monday evening, police said.