Student stabbed at Coral Springs High School in dispute ‘over a girl,’ police say
One student was stabbed in the parking lot of Coral Springs High School Friday afternoon, police said.
The fight between the two boys was “over a girl,” Coral Springs police confirmed to Miami Herald news partner CBS4.
Coral Springs police said the two students clashed after school in the back parking lot at around 3 p.m. The altercation led to stab wounds.
The 17-year-old student who was stabbed suffered non-life threatening injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital with a leg wound. The other student, 16, was not hurt and was detained by police, officials said. They say he will be charged with a felony count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
Investigators did not release the names of the students but CBS4 interviewed several student athletes at the school Friday and they expressed bewilderment.
“It’s over something stupid,” student Dominic Melazzi told the station. “It’s over a girl? You really are gonna over that extreme to stab someone over a girl? It’s high school.”
Classmates told WPLG Local 10 that the suspect in the stabbing “was a really smart kid — straight As.”
Nadine Drew, Public Information Officer for Broward County schools, released a statement on the stabbing Friday and reiterated Coral Springs police’s account of the incident. Drew added the school is working with officers during the investigation.
“In addition, disciplinary consequences will be in accordance with the Code Book of Student Conduct.”
This story was originally published April 5, 2019 at 4:30 PM.
