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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A stabbing occurred yesterday morning at Carrick High School in Pittsburgh which injured three students that go to school there. A sixteen-year-old boy who is also a Carrick High School student, was responsible for this stabbing and got taken into custody this morning. The sixteen-year-old suspect has now been charged with possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon on school property and three counts of aggravated assault. Carrick High School will be having remote classes today and tomorrow. According to officials, of the three students injured, one was treated and released at the scene, one was transported to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in stable condition, and a third was taken to UPMC Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh with a more serious injury. One of the victims of this stabbing was eighteen years old and that teenager is in critical condition. The student who is in critical condition and the other student that got treated at a hospital each had stab wounds on their abdomen. The third student that got treated and released at the scene had a laceration that was minor on their hand. The sixteen-year-old suspect also had a laceration on his hand and before he was taken into custody, he got treated at the scene. Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz mentioned that all three victims of this stabbing had an age range from fifteen to eighteen years old and this incident came from a fight that occurred in a hallway of Carrick High School. Ebony Pugh, a spokesperson from Pittsburgh Public Schools, stated that a “small knife” was used by the suspect to injure the three students that got hurt from this stabbing and Carrick High School is now safe. However, Dena Young, the chief of safety for Pittsburgh Public Schools, confirmed that this incident began after school for Carrick High School started yesterday morning, as the sixteen-year-old suspect, who arrived to school late, went through a security area to enter the building and entered through the cafeteria. Police spoke to the sixteen-year-old suspect, who said he was in the a thread of texting with students in Carrick High School, who, according to the suspect, had made threats against him three weeks before this stabbing occurred, while he took a knife from his home, put it in his backpack and then put it in the pocket of his hoodie when he walked through a hallway of Carrick High School. According to officials, a kitchen knife with a broken blade was recovered from inside a classroom near where the incident occurred. The suspect then told police that one of those in the group chat he was in was going to fight and that is when a physical alercation ensued, which was an argument between them.