A 15-year-old student who had been in a fight with another student was found stabbed to death Friday afternoon outside a Baltimore City public school, school officials said.
Students discovered the teen’s body a few feet from a rear door in a parking lot at William H. Lemmel Middle School in Northwest Baltimore at about 1 p.m., police said. The victim attended school Friday — the last day of American Education Week — and was stabbed multiple times in the upper torso, said Officer Donny Moses, a spokesman for Baltimore police.
The boy, whose name police were withholding Friday until his family could be notified, was transported to Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead later that afternoon.
Moses said Friday that police planned to make an arrest, but he declined to say if the suspect was a student.
“I am saddened by the loss of this young life and my thoughts and prayers are with the family of this young man,” Mayor Sheila Dixon said in a statement. “I have been in touch with school CEO Dr. [Andres] Alonso and offered to provide any resources he needs to help our students and their families deal with this traumatic event.”
The school heightened security and continued the school day.
“Students were very distraught, and it was very upsetting for everybody,” a teacher at the school who declined to give her name said late Friday afternoon.
A student at Lemmel was stabbed several times in April with a pair of scissors.
After soda bottle bombs exploded at another city school in October, Alonso said he would try to permanently expel any student who sets a fire or detonates an explosive on school property.
Grief counselors will be at Lemmel throughout this week.
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Examiner Staff Writer Stephen Janis contributed to this report.
