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Suspect in Coatesville High School stabbing in custody; victim’s family speaks out
The Caln Township Police Division recognized the suspect as 16-year-old Oddell Cannon of Coatesville. Police had been looking for Cannon who fled the varsity.
On Tuesday evening, police stated Cannon, who was wished on fees of tried homicide and associated offenses, surrendered with out incident.
Cannon was arraigned and remanded to the Chester County Juvenile Detention Heart in lieu of $750,000 money bail.
Based on the sufferer’s household, 16-year-old Mickey Rayner Jr. was stabbed when a combat broke out with one other pupil at about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. Rayner is a sophomore on the faculty.
Jacquelyn Prouse, Rayner’s mom, stated he underwent surgical procedure at Paoli Hospital and is presently in steady situation.
“He was stabbed within the neck, the arm, his aspect, his again a number of instances. (It) reduce each muscle and tendon in his arm all the best way all the way down to the bone,” she stated. “They’re nonetheless observing as a result of it did knick his colon, so they’re watching to guarantee that there may be not a gap.”
“That is a particularly upsetting incident,” Dr. Rick Dunlap, Substitute Superintendent for Coatesville Space Faculty District, stated in a letter to households Tuesday morning. “I am extraordinarily sorry to report that no less than one of many college students was stabbed and was transported to the hospital.”
Prouse stated her son has had issues with different college students previously on the faculty and their household is “fed up.”
“The college ought to have carried out extra. I’ve been coping with my son getting bullied because the starting of the yr,” Prouse stated.
Rayner’s cousin, Marissa Hartman, a senior on the faculty, has additionally witnessed the violence.
“It has been all yr. There’s violence all yr, fights. Children get jumped to the purpose that they must go to the hospital, youngsters’ heads getting stomped in. It is not gonna change,” she stated.
Caln Township police confirmed to Motion Information the varsity, which consists of grades 11 and 12, was positioned on lockdown.
Faculty officers started the method of dismissing college students shortly after the incident.
“CASH is now an energetic crime scene and we have to permit our police departments the time and house to finish their investigation whereas guaranteeing there aren’t any additional disruptions at the moment,” Dunlap stated.
The superintendent stated college students can be interviewed as they had been being dismissed. He stated the varsity will comply with up with counseling for college students and workers.
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