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SUDBURY, Massachusetts (AP) -- A 16-year-old student was charged with murder in the Friday morning stabbing of a classmate at a high school in an affluent Boston suburb.
The 15-year-old victim was stabbed in a hallway after a fight broke out between him and another male student in a school bathroom before classes began, District Attorney Gerard Leone said.
Leone called the fight an "isolated incident" between the two students. "There is no thought or belief that anyone else is in danger," he said.
The name of the student charged was not immediately released.
The victim, a freshman, was brought to Emerson Hospital in Concord from the high school in Sudbury and pronounced dead at 8:12 a.m., said Bonnie Goldsmith, a hospital spokeswoman.
State and local police were sent to the school.
Fred Smerlas, whose daughter attends the school, said parents were told that two students were involved in an incident.
Mary Clemens, a 17-year-old senior, said that when she arrived at the campus, students had gathered in the cafeteria.
"We were told by an administrator that someone was stabbed and it was bad, that that person was taken to the hospital and someone else had been taken to the police," Clemens said.
Smerlas said parents were told that students were taken to the school gymnasium after the stabbing.
The school, which has about 1,600 students, is 17 miles west of Boston
The 15-year-old victim was stabbed in a hallway after a fight broke out between him and another male student in a school bathroom before classes began, District Attorney Gerard Leone said.
Leone called the fight an "isolated incident" between the two students. "There is no thought or belief that anyone else is in danger," he said.
The name of the student charged was not immediately released.
The victim, a freshman, was brought to Emerson Hospital in Concord from the high school in Sudbury and pronounced dead at 8:12 a.m., said Bonnie Goldsmith, a hospital spokeswoman.
State and local police were sent to the school.
Fred Smerlas, whose daughter attends the school, said parents were told that two students were involved in an incident.
Mary Clemens, a 17-year-old senior, said that when she arrived at the campus, students had gathered in the cafeteria.
"We were told by an administrator that someone was stabbed and it was bad, that that person was taken to the hospital and someone else had been taken to the police," Clemens said.
Smerlas said parents were told that students were taken to the school gymnasium after the stabbing.
The school, which has about 1,600 students, is 17 miles west of Boston
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