Update: Classroom Stabbing Suspect Charged With Attempted Murder

Image: Donte Crawford (Baltimore Police Department)

The Baltimore police announced Wednesday that they had arrested and charged a city teenager with attempted murder after he allegedly walked into a classroom at his high school and stabbed a fellow student.

Donte Crawford, 17, of the 800 block of Vine Street, is being charged as an adult, the Police Department said on its Facebook page. He was taken to Central Booking on Wednesday morning, where he was awaiting his bail hearing.

The stabbing victim, also 17, made it through surgery, “but remains in critical condition at an area hospital,” the department said.

The incident took place at around noon Tuesday at Renaissance Academy High School, at 1301 McCulloh St., the police said. Crawford allegedly entered the third-floor classroom as school was in session and stabbed the 17-year-old junior multiple times.

The suspect fled and was soon apprehended in the 800 block of Vine Street, a police spokesman said.

The high school was evacuated and locked down immediately after the incident, and the building was closed through Wednesday, officials said. Students enrolled at Renaissance were sent to an alternate facility on Wednesday.

The police spokesman, T.J. Smith, said Tuesday that the motive for the stabbing and the nature of the relationship between the suspect and the victim were unclear, adding that it’s early in the investigation.