At about 1 p.m., Walnut Creek Police responded to Northgate High School for a reported stabbing.
The victim and suspect were both located. The victim was transported to Children’s Hospital in Oakland, and the suspect was detained.
Both are in 9th grade. Police say the victim suffered “extensive injuries.”
The following update is from the MDUSD:
Early this afternoon, there was a stabbing at Northgate High School. One student is in police custody and the victim has been taken to a local hospital. Both students involved were in the 9th grade and were acquaintances.
Walnut Creek police are on the scene. No other students were involved. Counselors are on site and will remain on site tomorrow. Students are back in class.
If you have any information, please call the Walnut Creek Police Department at 943-5844.
Dr. Adam Clark
Superintendent
Mt. Diablo Unified School District
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“Both students involved were in the 9th grade and were acquaintances”. Does that mean they had a class together? Would be interesting to know the details. Hope the kid stabbed is OK. Children’s Hospital in Oakland is a bit further away than John Muir. Curious choice.
@Richardoh
When my daughter was 5 years old, I took her to John Muir when she woke up one day and couldn’t walk or talk. For some reason there wasn’t much JM could do so they transferred her to Children’s Hospital. In my opinion and what I experienced, the girl is better off at Children’s Hospital.
First off was it a girl that got stabbed? Second, sorry that John Muir didn’t fit the bill. I hope your daughter is fine now.
Children’s is the designated trauma center for a person up to the age of 15.
John Muir has a big building and a wonderful fish tank downstairs but that place is not my first choice if I need actual emergency medical care.
He’s not okay. He got stabbed.
When one gets stabbed, one is the opposite of “okay.”
Larry and all you sticklers out there I should said I hope he will be OK. I left out “will be”
@LAMORINDA LARRY…You might want to reread the article, it was “she” that got stabbed. Sounds like the kid inherited the “Charlie Mason gene”.
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When initially posted, the article did not state the sex of the offender nor the victim.
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@Lamorinda Larry is absolved.
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Must say 10 Hail Newsoms
Always wiser to hold specific comments until at least basic facts become available. Absolution denied.
Nytemyvr, I get what you are trying to say. However, Charlie Manson never killed anyone. He was suspected of trying to kill a drug dealer, by shooting him, but he survived. Charlie got his cult followers to kill for him. Susan Atkins stabbed Sharon Tate, (Atkins died in jail several years ago) Leslie Van Houten was involved in the stabbing of the La Bianca’s, she is still in prison, as is many of the other followers of Manson, that were involved in one of more murders. The Tate and La Bianca murder’s are well known, however the cult also killed music teacher Gary Hinman, they thought he had money and wanted him to hand it over, he didn’t, they went to his apartment and chopped of his ear before killing him. Shorty Shea who was a ranchhand on the ranch that the family stayed at, was also killed by the family.
Pediatric doctors, nurses, social workers, and other health care providers are specialized in treating children.
They were boyfriend and girlfriend. Supposedly, she turned him down for sex and he stabbed her in the neck, head, and hand.
..source of info?
Maybe referring to Foothill HS in Pleasanton?
My daughter is a senior at Northgate. She told me a boy was rejected by a girl so he stabbed her in the face 3 times. I can’t even imagine what her and her family are going through right now and I hope she will be ok. =(
Horrible. NorthGate is changing.
Northgate has been troubling for a long time… bullying, drinking, ditching and all around bad seeds..
For a long long time. I’m class of 84, and we were doing all of those things. Lol. This is nothing new for NG, or any other HS.
Completely foreseeable after Clayton Valley went charter and most of its attendance area was reassigned to Northgate.
Perhaps MDUSD should hire a principal who actually does her job doesn’t moonlight counting ballots for HOA elections.
Unfortunately not surprising, but still amazing how some will jump to… not from our area… must be another color, another neighborhood, “We “ don’t do this-
This student is from Walnut Creek- this didn’t happen at YV or Mount- it happened at Northgate-
And while trying to say “ those people do thus”
If you want to profile – all school shootings have never been done by Latino or African Americans- but by white- upper socioeconomic level boys
But look at where some of you immediately went-
nobody said anything about race or color. stop trying to create something that isn’t there. troubled kids come in all forms and all neighborhoods. what people should be more concerned over is the fact that kids sat there and took videos of this rather than trying to jump in and help or at least go get help. What has become of people that would rather get a video for likes rather than potentially try to help save a life or stop an injury?
Teacher & Mom: you say “all school shootings have never been done by Latino or African Americans”. Just in the past year…
1) 18 year old Salvador Ramos (Latino), a former student, fatally shot nineteen students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. May 24, 2022.
2) 19 year old Orlando Harris (African American), a former student, fatally shot one student and one teacher in St. Louis. October 24, 2022.
@Lamorinda Larry, not true! The principal at Northgate is actually an amazing human being that cares about her students. She was my science teacher some 20 years ago at YV. This amazing woman still recognizes me after all this time when she’s run into me over the years. She’s the only high school teacher I have that does remember me and mostly because she’s went out of her way to stay in touch with all us students. She cares! She’s such a positive role model. I learned so much from her too. I feel soooo bad for Mrs. Cooper/Krauss right now. She will always one of my most beloved teachers.
Sounds like she should have kept teaching. Nobody got stabbed on her watch then.
Classic example of the principle that employees get promoted until they reach a position beyond their competence.
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Liberal logic would suggest common sense legislation is needed to ban knives.
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Why does a high school student bringing a knife to school. Of course you don’t ban knifes, but this student needs to be dealt with harshly.
This one brought a knife to school to stab his ex-girlfriend.
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“Of course you don’t ban knives (sic)”
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Double standards, Hanne?
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Of course!!
I’m thinking the knife acted without a human or something. We should ban knives and then sharpened sticks. C’mon hanne this is the only way. BAN ASSAULT STICKS NOW, for the childrens sake
ExitA and Sam, Don’t know where you get the double standard from, or banning guns. I have never advocated for banning guns. I don’t like guns, I don’t own one, I think there are too many in the hands of the wrong people. However, I have always supported people’s right to have a gun for self protection and or hunting, I have nothing against people that collect guns. I grew up with farmers they all had rifles and many went hunting. Are they certain powerful guns that should not be in the hands of ordinary people I believe so, but I have never adovocated for a total ban on guns or repeal of the 2nd amendment. When I was younger I was a little more strident about the 2nd amendment, but as I learned more about the American constitution, a repeal of any of the amendments is serious and should not be taking lightly.
It was actual a metal Fork…
Probably closer to the kid’s home.
Not at Northgate?!?! I thought this stuff only happens at Mt. Diablo. It happens everywhere people.
It has been considered normal at Mt. Diablo High for decades, but not at Northgate.
It has even been considered normal at Ygnacio Valley High 2 and a half miles up the road just over the Concord city limit line, as YVHS is the high school for most of Concord’s Monument Blvd. area.
My kids went to YVHS – never had this happen. Biggest difference is people always like to assume kids of color are the problem.
I have Jewish friends and the kids went to Foothill and Northgate. They received loads of antisemitism. Jewish friends and kids went to Oak Grove and YV had no issues.
@Concord Resident – The Jewish kids at YVHS had no issue’s because nobody wanted to risk getting stabbed since it’s normal in concord.
@LamorindaLarry, seems like you’re implying it’s normal because kids in these schools are more likely to be criminals than that of other predominantly white schools. Campolindo had “normal incidents” as well as Acalanes and De la salle. But of course these incident only remain in the news for a max of 5 hours because somebody pays good money to quiet the information.
I went to Northgate in the 80’s and there was a stabbing then.
must of been a district transfer
You’re absolutely right, because the implication is that they come from Pittsburg, Antioch or bad parts of Concord. It seems like a lot of people aren’t “racist” in these comments but might suggest they have kids stay in they’re designated schools. Maybe one could think they should go back to colored and white schools. Because no Caucasian children have ever committed any criminal acts in schools. Well at least none that involve knives, they just bring assault weapons.
you are the only one trying to provoke a race issue.
schools, and police seem to find it easier to simply transfer troubled students to other schools and think the problem is just going to mysteriously disappear at a new school. from reading others comments, it seems this student was transferred from another school for bringing a gun to school. stop trying to make this a race issue, when in reality its a parenting issue, or lack of. Maybe if kids had some discipline and were told no once in awhile, they wouldn’t freak out the first time they hear it.
What do you mean “bad parts” of concord? That phrase suggests Concord has good parts.
It does not.
This is no longer the Northgate many of went to many years ago. Take a drive over when schools letting out and be surprised..
Yeah. It’s a terrible neighborhood.
That’s terrible. I heard she was cut pretty badly. My prayer go out to the families involved
Student was stabbed in the neck by her ex boyfriend. She’s in stable condition
That is unbelievable. That guy should never be trusted again by anyone. What an idiot.
He certainly shouldn’t be trusted with scissors!
Got to ban knives and be able to sue knife makers for their manufacturing of deadly assault weapons.
Knives need to be confiscated. No one needs an assault knife. How about a knife buy back program?
Seriously, I hope the victim recovers.
.. what was he driving a Ford? Chevy? Toyota? .. gotta ban those too…
I think Cellophanes response were tongue in cheek.
Wow, good catch Hanne. Thanks for the insight.
Apparently some people that read the comment section here don’t understand what sarcasm is.
Even worse- it was assault scissors. I assume that is the right word for them bc they were used in an assault. Why do we need to cut things? I get they did back in the 1700s but now we are more civilized. On Amazon I can by things already cut by the government. We don’t need to do that ourselves.
If they had metal detectors at schools it might not have happened.
Ceramic blades don’t set off metal detectors … relatively easy to get too, though hard to sharpen.
See bring the metal detectors they will just find a way to work around them.
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Felons will find and have found ways to get a gun thus making CA’s strict gun control laws a farce.
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There has been a lot of changes to that school including bussing in students. Will be interesting to get more details. Glad it didn’t involved more students.
You won’t get more details. They will make sure you don’t get more details.
Walnut Creek has become S*** Creek.
I carried a knife in school. It wasn’t for self defense.Just in case I had to cut something. Never gave a thought of cutting someone. It was a different life a while back.
@RICARDOH….I’ve carried a knife since 3rd grade, nothing big, just a 3″ or 4″ folding blade, Case or Buck. A couple of kids in high school used to carry a .22 rifle in a rack in the back window of their pickup. The worst of those days was walking 5 miles to school, barefooted in the snow, uphills both ways.
To a speedy recovery for the young lady
What is wrong with people, holy s—-
If you can get weapons, drug, phones into a place like San Quentin , I doubt a metal detector would do much good, you could walk on to that campus on the weekend and hide almost anything
It’s the people not the knife or gun.
Many students commute from Pittsburg Baypoint to attend Northgate because their local MDUSD school in their neighborhood is infested with gangs and drugs. Apparently this boy brought the “thug life” mentality to Northgate High. I hope the girl recovers well, she is also scarred emotionally. I hope the boy gets his “just rewards” in prison.
The perpetrator was from Walnut Creek, so he obviously lives I. The Northgate High attendance zone. Also, some of the neighborhoods inthe Clayton Valley area of Concord are zoned for Northgate High.
The following is from the Walbut Creek PD Facebook page:
Date: April 25, 2023 Media Contact: Lt. Holley Connors
Case #: 23-13721 connors@walnutcreekpd.com
Arrested: Juvenile male resident of Walnut Creek
Charges: PC 664/187 – Attempted Murder & PC 203 – Mayhem
Student Arrested for Attempted Murder and Mayhem against another student at Northgate High School
Walnut Creek Police are investigating a violent assault on a student at Northgate High School that took place this afternoon, April 25, 2023. Police received a call from the school around 1:00 p.m. reporting a female student was stabbed by a male student and sustained injuries. Walnut Creek Police Department officers and detectives arrived, detained the student believed to be responsible, and quickly determined this was an isolated incident between two students. Based on the initial investigation, the suspect was arrested for PC 664/187 – Attempted Murder and PC 203 – Mayhem. He was transported to Contra Costa Juvenile Hall and is being held without bail.
The victim is currently being treated for her injuries at a local hospital and her condition is unknown.
The names of the involved parties will not be released, as they are juveniles. No other details are available at this time because this is an active investigation.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Walnut Creek Police Department at 925-943-5844 or call the Anonymous Tip Line at 925-943-5865.
No residents of Walnut Creek attend Las Lomas High School (in an entirely different school district)?
@Tony, the implications with this message. SMH. You should bite your tongue as the student is a resident of WC.
A transfer from Foothill. He also got in trouble For bringing a gun to school at foothill. Supposedly it was premeditated and he brought 2 knives to school with the intention of killing her. They always transfer the wackadoodles to a better school district hoping it will improve their behavior.
Your comment seems well intentioned and mostly true, but foothill is a middle school where the majority of kids go to Northgate. It’s not a transfer to a better school district, its the same school district. Apologies if I misunderstood your message. The kid had so many offences he really should’ve been taken out of school sooner
Maybe referring to Foothill HS in Pleasanton?
My heart goes out to the families of everyone involved. To those directly impacted and indirectly impacted. Like someone said earlier, this happens everywhere, but what nobody has said is that we, the community, are critical in making sure that our children can be safe physically, emotionally, and mentally. Today isn’t about what should have could have, it’s about exercising compassion for those negatively impacted and each of us doing what we can to find solutions and prevent more issues.
@ KAZ I believe @ BARBIE GIRL was talking about Foothill High school in Pleasanton. Not the middle school.
@WCdad, this message is 100% accurate. Well said.
People in the bay point area should be going to Mt. Diablo not Northgate. People pay money to move to good areas like WC so their kids can go to good schools. This kid has no business being in that school. He obviously is a danger to other kids. I hope the victim recovers. He should be charged with attempted murder. I don’t care if he’s underage you do the crime you do the time. If this is a domestic incident where this psycho doesn’t understand what part of I don’t want you anymore do you not understand! That stupid DA that’s I’m office there better charge him and throw the book at him. Where were the administrators when this happened? Our kids need protection from this kind of stuff.
@Anonymous, please explain further why kids from bay point should only stick to going to Mt. Diablo, I would really like to understand your thought process. Also, you’re 100% accurate, people pay good money to move to WC so their kids go to good schools, I guess this is why his parents paid the good money to live in WC themselves. Oh yes, btw he is a resident of WC, not Baypoint as you assumed.
Heard he brought a gun to Foothill too. MDUSD better start lining up it’s attorneys.
They move problem students from one school to another school in the district. Business as usual. Get that ADA.
Metal Detectors needed. Why would any parent not want them?
If he brought a gun to school before, the victim and parents deserve a lot. Stabbing a girl is demonic. I wonder what the home life was like
He was charged with Mayhem, so a body part was cut off during the assault…
“Every person who unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human being of a member of his body, or disables, disfigures, or renders it useless, or cuts or disables the tongue, or puts out an eye, or slits the nose, ear, or lip, is guilty of mayhem.”
The student is a Walnut Creek resident
Well, he’s a resident of Martinez now……..
If this Northgate student did in fact have a prior history that some of the comments have mentioned why were they ever allowed into another school in this district? What message does this send to students?
Why does this district seem to cater to the students that are in violation of school policies over and over at the expense of the students that follow the rules? Why does the district not uphold to their handbook and policies that they have students/families sign off on each year? Remember the incident at a PH Middle School where a student made an online threat was arrested only to be transferred into another middle school in the district (and a lottery school at that btw) to the dismay of parents. It even made the local news stations.
Meanwhile there is more concern/focus about Mascot names than student safety.
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