8-Year-Old Student Slashes 3 Children With Kitchen Knife At Minnesota Elementary School

April 18, 2018 10:36

Unfortunately, many schools in the United States aren’t doing enough to tackle knife crime.

Otherwise, it may lead to terrible consequences

On April 16, 8-year-old student from Minnesota came to Pleasantview Elementary school with a kitchen knife. In the hallway, the 2^nd-grader cut 3 children at random in less than a minute.

Then, the student walked to the school office and told what he had done by putting the knife down. The reason the 8-year-old came to school with a knife is unclear.

Update: 3 injured by 8-year-old in Pleasantview school knife attackin Sauk Rapids. https://t.co/MyYeEmCRRy pic.twitter.com/So7yEC7zeb

— St. Cloud Times (@sctimes) April 16, 2018

The victims are in 1^st, 4^th, and 7^th grade. And although the police tell the injuries are minor, 2 students required stitches, because the 2^nd-grader cut them in the back of their heads.

Police in Sauk Rapids say an elementary school student took a knife to school and randomly cut three classmates. https://t.co/KxZfy3JKZ4 pic.twitter.com/dwAz9WzetW

— KNSI Radio (@KNSI) April 16, 2018

The police responded aggressively and took the boy to the station, where he was released to his parents. They didn’t provide any more details.

The student will not be criminally charged according to Minnesota laws. Instead, social services should handle such cases.

@davidhogg111 we need to stop knife violence in schools!! How many more of these @NRA I mean knife associations are gonna hurt students. We need you David to show us that people are the problem and not the object in hand.https://t.co/rGgsSsXzLs

— Jared S. (@TheOtherEye13) April 16, 2018

The same day, the police in South Dakota also reported they would not charge another 7-year-old student who had brought a BB gun to school playground.