Yesterday, September 20, Violence erupted on the grounds of Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California, when an altercation between two students led to a stabbing. Paramedics were dispatched to the 1100 block of North Grand Avenue at around 11:35 a.m, according to NBC Los Angeles.
The victim, a student of the college, was promptly transported to the hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department took the suspected attacker, also a student, into custody and ensured that there was no ongoing public safety emergency on campus, as reported by FOX LA.
Details on the incident revealed that an argument between the two students escalated into a physical altercation prior to the stabbing. Jill Dolan, spokeswoman for Mt. San Antonio College, confirmed that both the victim and the alleged perpetrator were students at the institution.
An eyewitness to the incident, a fellow student who identified himself as Greg, recounted the chaotic scene. “I was coming from home to go to class and then I see emergency vehicles and I see some security staff saying there was a conflict of some sort. And then, from what I heard from other students, it was a fistfight and it escalated,” Greg said, as per by NBC Los Angeles.
AIR7 HD was on the scene, capturing images of several police vehicles blocking a portion of the building as authorities conducted their investigation. At this time, the condition of the hospitalized student remains undisclosed, as does the identity of the arrested suspect, as mentioned in ABC7.
