Two college students had been assaulted and one was stabbed exterior Ulysses S. Grant Excessive Faculty on Thursday afternoon, the Los Angeles Unified Faculty District confirmed. It was the third violent incident close to campus this 12 months that concerned college students from the college.
The L.A. Faculty Police Division obtained calls round 1:40 p.m. concerning the assault exterior the college, within the 13000 block of Oxnard Avenue in Van Nuys. “In the course of the assault one sufferer was stabbed,” stated division spokeswoman Nina Buranasombati in a press release.
The 2 male college students, a sophomore and junior, had simply left campus and had been strolling to their automobile in a park adjoining to the college, stated Gil Gamez, the top of the college cops union.
The attackers, round 4 people, emerged from a black automobile and requested the scholars the place they had been from, identified to be a gang problem. They then attacked the 2 boys, and one pupil obtained a number of knife wounds, stated Gamez, who stated he was briefed on the incident by sources with information concerning the investigation.
“The 2 victims transported themselves to an area hospital. Each are in secure situation,” in response to Buranasombati. “No different college students or workers have been impacted by this incident and the Grant Excessive Faculty campus is secure. The Los Angeles Faculty Police Division is the lead investigating company.”
In a earlier incident, a 15-year-old boy was hospitalized after being stabbed within the chest and arm, allegedly by one other pupil at the highschool, in September. And in June, a pupil was wounded by gunfire on the perimeter of the college round dismissal time. The LAPD indicated that the taking pictures was “believed to be gang associated.”
Grant Excessive’s principal, Rebecca McMurrin, emailed mother and father informing them of the off-campus stabbing, including that the “campus stays secure for instruction.”
