LEAGUE CITY, Texas The 16-year-old student who was stabbed at Clear Creek High School on Wednesday said the classmate who attacked him appeared to have snapped.
Steven Corcoran, 16, said fellow student Alex Caesar Thompson, 18, stabbed him with a pencil and scissors as the two walked in a school hallway. The incident sent Corcoran to the hospital and Thompson to jail.
We were all laughing and that s when he grabbed me, Corcoran said. He started getting me with the pencil, and then I pushed off of him and then I told him, the first thing I told him was, What s wrong with you? I m your friend, you know?
Corcoran said he tried to walk away, but Thompson kept coming at him.
I turned my hand and he got me with the pencil. I had him on the ground. I was holding ... the hand with his scissors. And, my hand was pretty much slipping. So, I was really trying to bash the scissors out of his hand. He hit me and my grip just loosened so much that it just went right in [behind my left ear], he said. My stab wound, I really didn t know it was there at first, until I looked at my hands, and my hands were covered with blood.
A spokesperson for Clear Creek ISD said Corcoran and Thompson had had a fight before the stabbing possibly over a girl.
I guess she was flirting with me or something and he didn t like it, Corcoran said. They thought it was a fight but there really wasn t any fight. It was more like a struggle to get the scissors out of this hand.
The teen said he s known Thompson for two years and never expected anything like this to happen.
Pretty much, I just, I thought, How could someone betray someone like that? Corcoran said.
But even though he had to get 12 staples behind his ear to close the wound, Corcoran said he was prepared to forgive Thompson.
I m still friends with the kid, really, he said. I don t wish anything bad to him. I hope he gets the help he needs.
Corcoran said he hopes to return to school sometime next week.
Meanwhile, Thompson was being held in the Galveston County Jail Thursday on $40,000 bond.
He s been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
