Leander Rouse High School Student Arrested After Teacher Stabbed With Art Class Knife

LEANDER, TX -- A Rouse High School student was arrested for stabbing his teacher in the hand with a knife used in art classes, sending the teacher to the hospital for treatment of her wounds.

The incident occurred this past Thursday, but details were just made available on Monday via an arrest affidavit. Ryland Alexander Gonzalez, 17, has since been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon against a servant, which is a first-degree felony.

According to an affidavit-based account by the Austin American-Statesman, police were called to the school on Thursday just before 4 p.m. They found the teacher in the nurses's office with two large lacerations to her right middle finger and a smaller laceration to her right index finger.

According to the teacher, Gonzalez was a student in her art class when she noticed he was using an exacto knife to stab a foam dinosaur in her classroom, the Statesman reported. The teacher approached Gonzalez in asking him for the knife, but he slashed at her hand three times instead, the newspaper reported.

Police tried to locate the student upon arriving at the school, but he had already gone home for the day, according to the report. When he returned to school the following day, he gave a different account of what occurred by saying he had permission to use it and the teacher was stabbed accidentally when she reached of it, the report states. When he yanked the knife away as she reached for it, he was just "playing around," he told officials.

But officials determined the deep puncture wounds on the teacher's hands were inconsistent with a clean slice the student described, according to the report.

The student was released from the Williamson County Jail on Friday after posting bail set at $15,000. He faces up to 99 years in prison if convicted.

>>> Booking photo of Ryland Alexander Gonzalez via Williamson County Jail records