CHICOPEE, Mass. (WGGB) – A student at the Westover Job Corps is under arrest after allegedly stabbing another student.
Chicopee Police Lt. Mark Higgins says that officers were called to the center around 9:40 a.m. after a student reported that he had been stabbed.
Investigators found that the victim was involved in an altercation Monday night around 10:00 with another student, identified by police as 24-year-old Anthony Martinez of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. when the victim was stabbed in the leg.
Higgins says it’s not known why the victim waited until Tuesday morning to report the incident.
Martinez is being charged with one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
The victim was taken to an area hospital with what are described as non-life threatening injuries.
Ban knives too
It’s a school, they should be
This is getting crazy. Stabbings, firefighter gets in altercation , using a bar stool.
These people ruin there lifes for being stupid.
Time to put a ban on assault knives…..
Doesn’t anyone remember what fists are for anymore? Sheesh
What job is he training for?
Whatever happened to the security there that are suppose to be doing their jobs and checking students that leave and arrive back on grounds? I used to attend Job Corps between 94 to 96 and they hd security checking students when they go and come back. What is this world coming to?
Violence at the Job Corps? Shocking, that’s never happened there before.