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One student was taken to the hospital and another is facing criminal charges after a stabbing at Westwood Middle School, a spokesperson for Polk County Public Schools said in a news release.
Polk County deputies responded at around 1:09 p.m. to the school located on Avenue J. Northwest on a report of a stabbing, the sheriff's office said in an updated news release.
There, they learned that a 15-year-old student allegedly stabbed a 14-year-old classmate with a fixed blade knife, similar to that of a paring knife found in a kitchen, then ran away, the sheriff's office reports.
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