A teenage girl was stabbed while inside a classroom at San Ysidro High School early Wednesday in what San Diego police said was a targeted attack.
The victim, a student believed to be around 15 or 16 years old, was stabbed three times around 9:15 a.m. and taken by ambulance to be treated at the hospital. Her condition was not immediately known, police said.
After the stabbing, the assailant ran from the classroom.
School officials placed the Airway Drive campus on lockdown as dozens of San Diego patrol cars arrived at the school. Officers quickly began “clearing the campus” as they searched for the suspect, believed to be another student, said police spokesperson Officer Colin Steinbroner.
“We believe it was targeted,” Steinbroner said.
Around 11 a.m., police detained a person, a male student at the school. Police said they have arrested someone they are calling “a person of interest” in the case but do not know what the relationship was between the victim and the assailant.