Student slashed at Tupper Secondary
Posted January 9, 2012 5:25 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – A 14-year-old girl was slashed at Sir Charles Tupper Secondary school Monday afternoon. The teen was cut in the arm and taken to hospital. She is expected to be okay.
Both the highschool and nearby David Livingstone Elementary were locked down as a precaution for about two hours.
Police are still looking for three suspects, all girls in their mid-teens. Kurt Heinrich with the Vancouver School Board says early indications are that they were not students at the school.
“Three intruders entered into Tupper Secondary School, they confronted one female student, they cut her on the arm and in the hair, apparently, and immediately when that sort of thing happens the school goes to code red, which means that the school is locked down,” he says.
Some students who took to Twitter said they saw armed police officers on the fourth floor.
Both schools lifted the lockdowns around 3:30 p.m.
After finally being allowed to go home, Grade 12 student Cole said he found the incident disturbing.
“It concerns me about all this, ’cause we thought we were all done with this type of stuff around our school,” he said, as his friends brought up the recent code red at John Oliver Secondary, several blocks south of Tupper, which happened due to a police standoff near that school.
Police have released the following descriptions of the suspects:
– One had a medium build and was wearing a long blue skirt.
– The second one had a slim build and was wearing light-coloured jeans, had short black hair and smelled of marijuana and alcohol.
– The third suspect was possibly Asian and was wearing grey skater-type shoes and black pants.
Investigators are looking into a possible motive for the assault.
