we will show you the incident in a moment. school officials confirm the incident happened on monday but stopped short of releasing further details. according to sheriff leon lott the school resource officer was acting in response to a student who was refusing to leave class. here is one view of the incident. on your back. give me your hands. give me your hands. nbc news has not confirmed what precipitated that violent encounter. the richland county sheriff s department as well as the internal affairs division are now investigating this, we are told. the school has also started investigation and is working in cooperation with the sheriff s office. a spokesman for richland county says the sro, that s spring valley high, is now on administrative duty, that s the school resource officer, until the investigation is complete. his name is ben fields. he s one of two resource officers at the school.
the bottom line is, this is the world that we are living in. this is why we re covering this case. black men are typically treated differently by police officers. they are perceived differently by people in the community. and it s something that if we don t talk about, that is never going to change. and i m unafraid to talk about it. and on the last issue of race if you look at the jury the composition, you have two latin americans on the jury and three african-americans on the jury. then the rest are white. we ll follow it every step of the way. sunny and joey thank you both very much. p. you bet. next on cnn, we have to talk about this child handcuffed. you ve seen the video. handcuffed above the elbows in the middle of this classroom by the school resource officer. now the deputy getting sued. we re going to talk to an expert about what should happen in these situations. plus a circus tent collapses killing a father and his daughter. coming up i ll talk to a witness who wa
students who stayed with their friends and did not leave their friends. cafeteria workers who automatically just reactively began caring for students who were bleeding. teachers and teachers aides who pulled students out of the hallways and into rooms and began applying first aid and protecting those children. and then, obviously, the school resource officer. the suspect, 16-year-old alex hribal, charged as an adult on four counts of criminal intent to commit a homicide, and 21 counts of aggravated assault. in court on wednesday, the magistrate denied bail for him. his defense attorney asked for a psychiatric evaluation for him. also interesting to note, his parents were not present during the arraignment.
victims on the grassy area on the exterior of the school. and upon entering the building, i was met in the first floor highway by the school resource officer. and i observed a male security guard with a stomach wound near by the officer. the officers at the time had the suspect, the 16 year old suspect in custody and handcuffed. reporter: he was allegedly armed with two knives and went from classroom to classroom and hallways in the high school tabbing and slashing people in a 30 minute rampage. 19 students and one adult staff member was injured. the school principal had contact with the suspect and one of the guys who helped to tackle him to get him in custody. two students were in critical condition and have been stable otherwised.
time like this? you know, you just, you reassure them. you say we re doing everything we can to make sure the students are safe now. we have plans in place. it was after people did what they were supposed to do. we certainly will do a comprehensive follow-up as the crisis winds down. look into what our systems were, what happened. maybe we could have identified the potential for this earlier on. but it s really just to reassure parents. we re told by some officials some of the systems they had in place worked very well. it was the school principal along with, we understand, the school resource officer, who did subdue the suspect. we re hoping that all of those injured do recover. hospital officials tell us that s what they re hopeful for also. there were some procedures i think that will be questionsed an some point. including we learned theretecto school. might have detected those knives before they went in the door.