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Teen Charged with Stabbing Student

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RALEIGH — A Wake County teenager was arrested forstabbing a fellow student during an after-school fight. An argument beganbetween the two 15-year-olds on a school bus leaving Leesville HighSchool.

Officers say two 15-year-old girls argued on the bus, thencarried the argument into the parking lot in the Raleigh Gardensneighborhood.

Witness Jamil Peebles says he tried to break up the fight.

Police say one of the girls attacked the other with a small butcherknife in the parking lot. Dozens of students, neighbors and friendswatched the attack.

Witness Koury Thompson says it was terrible to watch.

The victim is in satisfactory condition at Wake Medical CenterHospital. Her alleged assailant is being charged, as a juvenile, withassault with a deadly weapon. Police said the argument started over aremark made by one of the girlsabout the other.

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