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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Monache High School successful Porterville was temporarily connected lockdown Monday aft a antheral walked onto field and stabbed a student.
Police aboriginal arrested 19-year-old Noah Seratte successful transportation with the crime. Seratte is simply a erstwhile pupil whom constabulary accidental was expelled and arrested past twelvemonth for making transgression threats.
“This was beauteous crazy,” Monache elder Adam Rush said.
Monache is simply a closed field with a obstruction wrapping astir the full school. Police accidental Seratte got successful by mixing into a assemblage of students going to school.
They accidental helium walked onto field astatine 7:13 a.m. and wandered astir for astir an hour. Then astatine 8:10 a.m., officials accidental helium walked into a driver's acquisition people and attacked a 15-year-old miss astatine random.
“Our unit responded to the scene. When they arrived, they located a 15-year-old unfortunate suffering from a stab coiled to her near leg,” Porterville Police Captain Josh Maniss said.
Officials accidental the teacher instantly intervened and forced Seratte to permission the campus.
“The teacher stopped it close distant – and lone 1 idiosyncratic got hurt, and thankfully they didn’t get excessively hurt,” Rush said.
Police accidental they recovered Seratte’s apparel and idiosyncratic belongings connected campus, helping them to place him arsenic the suspect. They arrested him adjacent the schoolhouse astatine Prospect Street and Henderson Avenue, and Maniss says he’s relieved the onslaught was not worse.
“The information that [the victim] was released from the infirmary and is recovering is simply a precise important portion of this puzzle,” Maniss said.
Reporters asked Rush what helium thinks astir the information that Seratte managed to get connected campus, locomotion astir for an hour, and past locomotion into a schoolroom undetected.
“I deliberation it's weird, but I mean, it's not needfully a information issue. There's thing they could person done astir it. He was a erstwhile student, and it's similar – helium blended in, and helium looks similar a kid, I assume. He's 19. So, I mean, I don't cognize however other they would lick that problem,” Rush said.
He says the schoolhouse has a information squad and assets officers, truthful helium ever feels safe.
“We person drills, truthful if thing goes down, you cognize what to do,” Rush said.
The Porterville Unified School District posted a connection Monday, saying they judge their staff’s effect was swift and effective.
However, they accidental they volition enactment to larn thing from this concern and person conversations astir schoolhouse information successful the coming days.
