GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — New video shows the moments before police say a student stabbed a teacher inside a Gwinnett County Middle School classroom. The stabbing happened Monday inside a language arts classroom at Trickum Middle School.
A 13-year-old student was taken into custody.
“The student reportedly called the teacher over and then struck her in the chest area with an 8-inch butcher knife that he had in his book bag. Help was called and while our SRO was responding to the room the young man grabbed another student,” the school principal said in a statement.
Video a student took inside the classroom during the alleged attack shows the tense moments as the teenager waves around the large knife and even holds it to another student. This all happened in the minutes after he’s accused of stabbing his teacher.
“My classmate was screaming. I looked over and I seen him just stab her out of nowhere,” Samaura Smith said.
She spoke with Channel 2's Lauren Pozen with her mother's permission.
Smith says she started recording after her injured teacher asked her to.
“I went over to my teacher and she was like, ‘Record it so I can show someone.’ And then I recorded it,” Smith said.
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At one point you can see a second teacher come in and try to help. She called for an administrator.
In its statement Monday, the school district said the suspect was apprehended immediately, but Smith’s mother, Tiffany White, says her daughter told her it took more than 10 minutes for help to arrive.
“I was definitely afraid for her because the video she had sent me first he was pointing the knife at her asking her to stop recording,” White said.
The district told Pozen Friday that help did arrive within two minutes, but also said what they told parents earlier this week did not include all the details surrounding the incident.
Gwinnett County Schools police are investigating and encouraging anyone who has video of it to share it with police.
Smith said the whole incident has shaken her sense of security.
“It could have been any of us who got stabbed,” she said.
“She cried for days. She still can’t sleep at night,” White said.
The teacher was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center and was conscious and talking.
Channel 2's Michael Seiden spoke exclusively with the teacher's father the day after the stabbing.
“They were amazing. The way they treated her and some of her students stepped up. We are really blessed to have people who care about her," he said.
Due to privacy laws, the district told Pozen they could not comment on what has happened to the boy with the knife.
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