A Dartmouth High School student was arrested Wednesday morning after police say they attempted to stab a fellow student inside the school.
Police responded to the school around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Arriving officers learned two students were “involved in an altercation” in the hallway but separated when one fled to a nearby office. Officers determined a student approached another in the hallway and attempted to stab them using a pen with a screwdriver on the other end, police wrote in a statement posted to Facebook.
The other student was able to get away without injury. The pair were separated when the school issued a shelter-in-place to allow school staff and responding officers to find the weapon, police said.
The student who police say attempted to stab their peer was taken to a hospital and is being charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, assault with intent to murder, assault & battery and assault with intent to cause serious bodily harm, police said. Their name was not released.
“Thankfully, no one was hurt during this incident”, said Dartmouth Police Chief Brian P. Levesque in the statement. “We’re grateful for the quick response and close collaboration between officers of the Dartmouth Police Department and staff at the Dartmouth High School to not only contain this incident, but for the professionalism and compassion displayed responding to a call for service of this nature.”
