Overview
- Tacoma police and fire crews responded shortly after 1:35 p.m. Thursday to Henry Foss High School, where an altercation left four students and a campus security officer hurt and a student suspect detained.
- The Tacoma Fire Department said five patients were taken to hospitals and the suspect was also transported, with four students initially listed as critical before all injuries were later reported stable.
- Tacoma police said the student suspect has been booked on five counts of first-degree assault following the attack.
- The school went into lockdown, officers secured the campus, and parents met students at a reunification area in the parking lot.
- District officials canceled Friday classes and activities and plan to reopen Monday with counselors on site, while investigators review what happened and have not confirmed a motive or how many wounds were stabbings versus cuts, despite unverified student accounts about a vape pen dispute.