HONOLULU: According to the sources authorities said that a police officer shot a 17-year-old runaway in the wrist at a Hawaii high school after the teen cut one of the officer with a knife and punched two others.
State Department of education spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said that” Roosevelt High School officials recognized the suspected boy as a runaway and called the police after he showed up at school on the Tuesday morning.”
Maj. Richard Robinson, commander of the Criminal Investigations Department for Honolulu police, said that the boy lunged at officers who arrived and tried to take him into custody.
Robinson said that the teen attacked one of officers with a knife, leaving his torso with a minor brutally cut.
One of the officers then fired two shots, hitting the boy once in wrist. He was than hospitalized with the non-life-threatening injuries.
The public high school near downtown Honolulu was placed on locked, but students have since been released.
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