WALNUT CREEK — Counselors had been obtainable for Northgate Excessive College college students on Wednesday, a day after a male scholar stabbed a lady on the faculty, police mentioned.
Police arrested the stabbing suspect on suspicion of tried homicide and mayhem after the Tuesday incident, in response to a press release from Walnut Creek police. He was taken to Contra Costa Juvenile Corridor and was held there with out bail, police mentioned.
Based on a police social-media publish Wednesday morning, the feminine scholar’s situation was secure. A district spokesperson mentioned Wednesday afternoon that the district despatched a trauma-support staff of three counselors, a social employee and a psychologist to the campus.
Mount Diablo Unified College District superintendent Adam Clark in a press release despatched to folks mentioned each college students had been ninth graders and acquaintances. No different college students had been concerned, he mentioned.
Officers had been known as to the college about 1 p.m. Tuesday. Based on police, they rapidly recognized and detained the coed believed to be accountable and arrested him.
Though violent episodes in faculties typically characteristic weapons, different weapons have typically led to critical incidents corresponding to final month’s deadly stabbing of a junior by a freshman throughout a battle at a Santa Rosa highschool.
Anybody with data could name Walnut Creek police at 925-935-6400 or the division’s nameless tip line at 925-943-5865.
Workers author George Kelly contributed to this report.