Student stabbed at Sacramento-area K-8 school; officers detain another student
An eighth-grade student was taken to a hospital after being stabbed by another eighth-grader with a knife Thursday morning at an Arden Arcade school, San Juan Unified School District and law enforcement officials said.
The attack happened about 9 a.m. at Sierra Oaks K-8. The knife wounds “appear to be superficial and non-life-threatening,” Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Rodney Grassmann told The Sacramento Bee.
The incident “was resolved very quickly,” and staff were able to quickly retrieve the weapon, San Juan Unified School District spokesman Trent Allen said.
“This morning, our school experienced an act of violence when a female student attacked another student with a knife,” the school’s principal Hady Chrostowski wrote in a letter to parents.
“The families of those involved have been notified. The victim has been transported to a local hospital. The student who brought the knife has been detained by law enforcement and is no longer on campus.”
The juvenile subject “used a household knife to make puncture wounds” on another student, Grassmann said. The girl has been booked into juvenile hall, he said.
The incident happened during a morning passing period, Chrostowski wrote, and may have been witnessed by Sierra Oaks middle-school students.
Sierra Oaks “will be continuing with the school day to provide normalcy for our students with the addition of counseling support,” but that parents who wish up to pick up their students may do so, the principal wrote.
This story was originally published March 31, 2022 at 12:08 PM.
