1 fatally stabbed at Mass. high school

A person was fatally stabbed Friday morning at a high school outside Boston, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The victim was brought to Emerson Hospital in Concord from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Sudbury and pronounced dead at 8:12 a.m., said Bonnie Goldsmith, a hospital spokeswoman. Goldsmith would not say whether the victim was a student or a teacher.

State and local police were sent to the school. Corey Welford, a spokesman for prosecutor Gerard Leone Jr., did not immediately provide additional details.

Mary Clemens, a 17-year-old senior, said that a friend called her Friday morning on her way to school to tell her the building had been locked down. When she arrived, she saw students gathered in the cafeteria.

"We were told by an administrator that someone was stabbed and it was bad, that that person was taken to the hospital and someone else had been taken to the police," Clemens said.

"It was shocking," she said. "You would never expect something like that to happen at our school, but I guess it can happen anywhere."

Fred Smerlas, who has a daughter at the school, told WHDH-TV that parents were told that there was an incident prior to school starting involving two students.

"There's probably about 100 parents congregating outside the school trying to get more information," he said.

Smerlas said parents were told that students were taken to the school gymnasium after the stabbing.

The school has about 1,600 students and is 17 miles west of Boston.

Jodie Greenhouse, whose 17-year-old daughter, Nicole, is a junior at the school, said her daughter told her the school was put in lockdown. Students were initially taken to the cafeteria and later to the gymnasium, she said.

"She called this morning to say, Mom, I'm fine,'" said Greenhouse.