Wharton High Student Arrested in Stabbing

TAMPA, FL — A 15-year-old Wharton High School student faces multiple criminal charges after Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies say he stabbed another boy with a steak knife Thursday afternoon.

The incident began to unfold on the Wharton campus, 20150 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., around 2 p.m., deputies say. The boy and a 14-year-old student first got into a verbal spat, but the fight became physical, deputies said.

According to an email from the sheriff’s office, the 15-year-old armed himself with a steak knife he had in his possession and “stabbed the victim multiple times causing non-life threatening injuries.”

The teen is then accused of trying to hide the knife in a trash can in a nearby boys’ bathroom, the email said.

The 14-year-old boy injured in the stabbing was taken to Tampa General Hospital with injuries that are not life threatening, deputies say. The 15-year-old was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, tampering with evidence and possession of a weapon on school grounds.

No further information is available. Patch is not releasing the names of the two boys involved because of their ages.

Photo courtesy of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office

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