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prepared for them. thank you very much, mr. dan stevens from the westmoreland police department. he s the public information officer. i ve got to take a break. before i go, i want to update our viewers once again. this incident went down just east of pittsburgh in murraysville, pennsylvania at franklin regional high school. at least 20 students were injured, we believe they were injured most of them stabbed or slashed by another student allegedly armed with a knife. that student, a male, is now in police custody. we don t know his age or his name as of yet. but most of the injured were between 14 and 17 years old. four of the students injured needed surgery. they appear to be doing okay. those are the initial reports. the others suffered non-life-threatening injuries. we ll be back with much more from murraysville, pennsylvania, after this.
yes, from that school. reporter: we understand that seven of them are students. one of them possibly an adult. there are patients of teenage years, seven of those, and an adult, who is older than 21 as the eighth patient. reporter: in terms of severity of the injuries, that s three that are going to need surgery, two in the o.r. and one going to the o.r.? correct. reporter: the others don t need surgery. superficial wounds? no, they are not superficial wounds. we have to stage the patients. the patients that are unstable with the most severe injuries go to the operating room. some patients don t need any type of imaging. you can tell based on their stab wound and their blood pressure they just need to go to the operating room. other patients that are stable, normal blood pressure, normal heart rate, we have time to do a more typical approach to do a cat scan and see what s injured inside and make a plan according
available, they re being held in a separate location. the school is in lockdown. the victims range from 14 to 17 years old. we are confirming 20 or at least 20 victims have been flown and taken to hospitals. four we understand needed surgery. they re doing all right at this point. i think it s too early in the game saying they are doing all right. surgery is surgery, right? the one question is who is the student being held, what is his age and why? what would be the motive to take a knife into school, 7:13 this morning. the student was there right when the doors were opened of his high school in pennsylvania. students were gathering to go to class, so they were all in a big bunch in the hallway, right? i m trying to figure out, one suspect with one knife, 20 students injured although it s not clear that all those injuries came with stab wounds, how he was able to injury so many? that s right. when you look at a knife, you
be in surgery. the cat scans done to determine if there were internal injuries, could result in more surgeries. he was describing some of the injuries to these students that were around 15 years old. they also have one adult at forbes right now. i don t know the aenge of the adult. the students were 15 years old. some suffered stab wounds to the torso, back, stomach. two of them are in surgery. three others are waiting to go in. jean, stick around. i want to bring in ken trump, the president of the national school safety and security services and also jeff gardere. he is a psychologist. ken, i know you are on the phone. can you hear me? i can hear you fine. this particular high school had a school resource officer on duty. authorities tell me he did all the right things. in general, describe how that