WHARTON, Texas — Wharton Senior High School and Wharton Junior High School were placed on lockdown Wednesday after two students were stabbed during a fight that broke out during lunch at the high school's campus, according to officials.
In a release, the Wharton Independent School District said a fight broke out between students during lunch at Wharton Senior High School, leading to a lockdown of the campus as well as a lockdown at the nearby Wharton Junior High School.
Police said they got reports about multiple people being stabbed at the high school at about 1:20 p.m.
District officials said both campuses were placed on lockdown while police searched for the students involved in the incident. According to Wharton police, two people were taken into custody fairly quickly and another was taken into custody after searching for a while. A total of six students went to the police station for questioning and three (all 17 years old) have been arrested, police said.
They said a knife was the only weapon involved in the incident.
Here's the update officials provided:
Multiple students were involved in the fight and two were injured. The two injured students were taken to area hospitals via Life Flight, officials said. It's unclear what injuries the students suffered, but police said they were alert and conscious. No other injuries were reported.
According to police, one of the students who went to the station for questioning was the one who stabbed the other students.
Police said they reviewed video evidence along with witness accounts and found out that the student who stabbed the others was being attacked and assaulted when he pulled out the "bladed object and stabbed two students."
That student then left the campus.
When the lockdown was lifted, students were released via the "standard reunification process."
All Wharton ISD campuses will resume normal operations on Thursday.