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Teen stabbed at Cameron Heights Collegiate
Date: Oct 12, 2006 9:33 AM
PUBLICATION: The Record (Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo)
DATE: 2006.10.12
EDITION: Final
SECTION: FRONT
PAGE: A1
BYLINE: FRANCES BARRICK
SOURCE: RECORD STAFF; With files from Melinda Dalton, Record staff
DATELINE: KITCHENER
WORD COUNT: 381

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Teen stabbed at Cameron

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Waterloo regional police arrested a 17-year-old Kitchener youth
yesterday shortly after a student at Cameron Heights Collegiate in
Kitchener was kicked, punched and stabbed in the head in a school
hallway.

The incident happened just eight days after a lockdown at Forest Heights
Collegiate in Kitchener was triggered by a group of students, two armed
with steel pipes, who walked into the suburban school.

Seven Forest Heights students have been charged in connection with that
incident.

Yesterday, just before noon at Cameron Heights, a male Grade 11 student
was sitting in a basement hallway with friends when the 17-year-old, who
is not a student at the school, approached him, Insp. Bryan Larkin said.


There was an exchange of words before the 16-year-old boy said he was
kicked and punched in the head, he said.

"The student attempted to defend himself and was stabbed in the head
(with) a weapon similar to an X-Acto knife," Larkin said.

The injured student ran to the school's main office holding his bleeding
head, the school's principal Kelly Kempel said.

The student later walked out to a waiting ambulance and was taken to
Grand River Hospital where he received stitches for a cut on his head
and a cut on his cheek, Larkin said. He was released from hospital
yesterday.

The victim knew his assailant, Larkin said. "This is related to a
non-school incident. They've had several verbal exchanges in the days
leading up to this."

The pair had previously been friends, until a recent falling out, the
principal said. Prior to this incident, the victim had allegedly also
received threatening e-mail messages from his assailant, she said.

The suspect was arrested near the Charles Street school.

He is charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon, and is
expected to appear in court today for a bail hearing.

Kempel said school security continues to be a "point of discussion" with
school officials, especially in light of last week's incident at Forest
Heights and recent school shootings in Montreal and the United States.

While the school's front door is unlocked during school hours, other
entrances to this downtown school have controlled access, she said.
There are video-surveillance cameras at the front of the school. The
hallway where the assault occurred is well-supervised by teachers, she
said.

Larkin said the suspect found the alleged victim with the help of
students he knew at the school.

Other students who witnessed the attack ran to nearby teachers for help.


"While we know it (the school) is a piece of the community, it is a
guarded piece of the community," the principal said. "It is a challenge
as an educator and a parent to protect our kids from fights and
violence," she said.




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