Officials confirm stabbing at city high school

Student in stable condition, officials say

A Baltimore high school student was listed in stable condition Monday afternoon after he was stabbed in his upper body during an in-school confrontation with another student, school officials said.

The Heritage High School student was treated by a school nurse and taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital after the incident about 10:45 a.m., city school officials said in a statement released five hours after the stabbing. School officials did not release the grade levels of the students involved.

In the statement, officials said that a person of interest in being questioned in the investigation, being handled by Baltimore City Police.

The district said that appropriate consequences would be administered in accordance with the system's discipline code.

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