Overview
- Juvenile prosecutors formally notified the ninth-grade pupil of suspicion for attempted murder under Ukraine’s criminal statutes on attempt and murder.
- A closed hearing will determine what pre-trial restriction the court will impose on the detained suspect.
- Investigators say the girl waited in the entryway of her classmate’s building and stabbed her several times, leaving a fragment of the blade lodged in the victim’s head.
- Doctors hospitalized the wounded classmate, and officials say her life is not in danger.
- Prosecutors are examining a possible bullying motive, and the school says it had received no complaints about conflicts involving the two girls, while police report 17 bullying cases in regional schools this year.