Teen Stabs Father, Brother After Having Knife At School: Police

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA — A Gwinnett County teen stabbed his father and brother, Wednesday, after he was sent home for carrying a knife on school grounds, according to police reports.

Maximilliano "Max" Cardenas-Garcia, 17, was charged with aggravated battery and aggravated assault after stabbing his father and brother, Louis Cardenas-Garcia and Luis Cardenas-Garcia, respectively.

According to the police report, Max was sent home from school by a Maxwell High School Resource Officer earlier in the day. When officers arrived at his home, near Patterson Road and Five Forks Trickum Road, they found Louis Cardenas-Garcia, Max's father, sitting on the kitchen floor with stab wounds to the left side of his neck and lower back. Blood was running down the left side of his face from a superficial cut above his left eye. His clothing was stained with blood.

Luis Cardenas-Garcia, Max's brother, was kneeling behind his father holding pressure on the wound to Louis' neck with a white dish towel, according to the police report. Luis had puncture wounds in the left side of his chest and left shoulder.

The fire department arrived and rendered assistance to both men. Their condition is unknown.
Maria Garcia, Max's mother, told police, according to the police report, that the school resource officer told her that two classmates notified the officer that Max was carrying a knife and the classmates turned him in. Officers were provided with a discipline referral and student statement for the incident.

The mother then told officers, according to the report, that her son was caught carrying a knife at school. She said he is enrolled in a Police Explorer Program at the school and she had hoped his behavior would change because he had taken a knife to school before. After the argument, she told police her son ran upstairs and she followed, to see him stabbing his father with a pointed object that was not a knife.

She told police, according to the report, that Max's brother tried to pull Max off their father and Max attacked him as well. Max then ran out the door and received a ride.

Police later found and arrested Max.

Photo courtesy Gwinnett County Police Department