Five Utah students stabbed in locker room, teen detained
By BRADY McCOMBS and LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press
Published: November 15, 2016, 10:42pm
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Police stand outside Mountain View High School after several students were stabbed inside the high school Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016, in Orem, Utah Police say a 16-year-old boy was taken into custody after the stabbings. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
OREM, Utah — As a group of boys at a Utah high school changed Tuesday morning into gym clothes for physical education class, a straight-A student pulled out a knife in the locker room and stabbed five of his classmates, sending the injured running for their lives and covered in blood, police said.
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