<br/><small><a href=”http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=919+University+Boulevard+West,+Silver+Spring,+MD&aq=1&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=36.915634,86.572266&vpsrc=0&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=919+University+Blvd+W,+Silver+Spring,+Maryland+20901&t=m&ll=39.034653,-77.024202&spn=0.013334,0.01708&z=14&iwloc=A” style=”color:#0000FF;text-align:left”>View Larger Map</a></small></div><span class=”BodyCopy”>A 17-year-old girl is accused of stabbing and slashing another teenager, causing 5- to 8-inch-long wounds, in a fight outside a Silver Spring high school.</span> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Montgomery County police said 17-year-old Briana Funes has been charged as an adult with attempted murder, assault, reckless endangerment and carrying a weapon on school property.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>The altercation happened after a basketball game at <a target=”_blank” href=”http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/northwoodhs”>Northwood High School</a>, located at <a target=”_blank” href=”http://maps.google.com/maps?q=919+University+Blvd.+West,+Silver+Spring,+MD&hl=en&ll=39.03462,-77.024202&spn=0.018601,0.031843&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.775203,65.214844&vpsrc=6&hnear=919+University+Blvd+W,+Silver+Spring,+Maryland+20901&t=m&z=15″>919 University Blvd. West</a>, shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Police said Funes confessed during a Wednesday interview with investigators to stabbing and slashing a 17-year-old girl multiple times.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Emergency workers found six wounds on the girl’s back and torso, according to charging documents filed in Montgomery County District Court. The wounds were 5 to 8 inches long, court documents said.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>The <a target=”_blank” href=”http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/kennedyhs/”>Kennedy High School</a> senior told police that she saw the victim, a student at <a target=”_blank” href=”http://www.mbhs.edu/”>Montgomery Blair High School</a>, having a physical fight in the parking lot with a friend of Funes.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Funes said she used a knife she was carrying in her jacket pocket to repeatedly stab the girl, then fled from the school in her vehicle, according to court records.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>The wounds were “very substantial,” prosecutor Peter Feeney said at a bond review hearing Thursday. </span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>As Funes was being transported to the jail Wednesday, she told an officer, “maybe she learned her lesson,” referring to the victim, Feeney said.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>It wasn’t clear what sparked the original altercation. Feeney said it appears there had been a “percolating” dispute among the girls involved.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>He said he didn’t know how long the victim was in the hospital, but she had been released as of Thursday afternoon.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Feeney argued that Funes should remain held without bond. Defense attorney A.P. Pishevar said Funes should be able to be released because of her age and cooperation with investigators.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>”She did turn herself in,” he said.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Funes appeared via a video hookup and did not speak during the brief hearing. Several of her family members wept in the front row of the courtroom when she appeared on screen in a tan prison jumpsuit.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Judge J. Michael Conroy set a $250,000 bond for Funes, but she remained incarcerated as of early Thursday evening, according to online court records.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Outside the courtroom, Pishevar said Funes has been accepted to colleges and has no prior criminal record.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>”She’s a young lady with a future,” he said.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 22.</span></p> <p><span style=”font-style:italic;” class=”EndEmailTag”><i><a href=” mailto:[email protected] “>[email protected]</a></i></span></p>
