16-year-old Student To Be Charged As An Adult For Pennsylvania School Knifing Rampage

Alex Hribal

Students and an adult suffered non-life threatening injuries at the high school.

By H. Nelson Goodson

April 9, 2014

Murrysville, Pennsylvania - On Wednesday, Alex Hribal, 16, was taken into custody in connection with stabbing and knifing at least 19 Franklin Regional High School students and a 60-year-old school staffer. Four students were seriously knifed around 7:15 a.m. as Hribal went on a rampage with a 6" and 10" knives and attacked anyone in his path when students were arriving at the school.
Hribal will be charged as an adult, he is facing four counts of attempted homicide, 21 counts of aggravated assault and one count for carrying a weapon at school, according to authorities.
No motive has been determined to what led Hribal to just attack other students at his school.