Police: No known targets in stabbings

Associated Press

MURRYSVILLE, Pa.

No evidence has surfaced yet to show that a boy charged in a stabbing rampage at his high school was targeting any particular student, and efforts to establish a motive are stalled because the suspect isn’t talking and many victims remain hospitalized, a police chief said Friday.

“At this point I don’t have anybody that, you know, was targeted,” Chief Thomas Seefeld said. “I know the issue of bullying has been brought up, but his attorney has even said ... that bullying is not part of this, and we have no evidence or reason to believe that it is.”

Alex Hribal, 16, is accused of stabbing or slashing 21 students and a guard Wednesday at the 1,200-student Franklin Regional High School east of Pittsburgh.