Northeast Middle School locked down after student stabbed, hospitalized
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Northeast Middle School stabbing
Kansas City police responded to a stabbing on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, at Northeast Middle School, 4904 Independence Ave. Arriving officers found 14-year-old Manuel J. Guzman with stab wounds in a bathroom. He was taken to a hospital where he died later that day. Another student was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder in Jackson County Juvenile Court.
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Northeast Middle School in Kansas City was placed under lockdown Tuesday morning following a life-threatening stabbing involving two students.
Kansas City police responded to the school located at 4904 Independence Ave. just after 9 a.m. One victim, a student, was taken to Children’s Mercy with critical injuries, said Officer Donna Drake, a spokeswoman for the Kansas City Police Department.
Police have shutdown the streets in the area immediately surrounded the school, and said they did not believe there was an ongoing threat. A person of interest has been detained, police said.
Drake said students are expected to be dismissed from school for the day.
The district was working with families to reunite them with students who attend the school, said Elle Moxley, public relations coordinator for the district.
Plans are underway to have students who ride buses home by noon, she said. Buses have arrived at the school.
“We’re going to dismiss slowly, one class at a time, so that will take a little bit of time to clear them,” Moxley said. “Then we will be dismissing our car riders and walkers.”
Parents are being asked to pick up their students on the Chelsea Avenue side of the building. The earliest those students would be released is 11 a.m., she said. It could be a little later as the district wants to get the buses out first.
Students could be seen waving to parents from the second story window while waiting to be released from the school.
For students who don’t have anywhere to go after school, or they need a safe place to go, they will be kept at the school until arrangements can be made with their families.
“We are gathering information and will be working closely with the KCPD to understand what happened today,” Moxley said.
This story was originally published April 12, 2022 at 10:38 AM.
