DENVER — One student is recovering and another person is in custody after a stabbing at George Washington High School in Denver Friday afternoon.
Students said the situation and how the administration at their school handled it was frustrating.
"We don't know who that is, we don't know the situation at all and that's scary," said Keira Miller, a senior at George Washington High School.
Students at George Washington High are still reeling after a stabbing at their school Friday.
"I was in one of my teachers' rooms at the time, and one of my friends came in and she said somebody got stabbed," said Ousmane Cisse, a freshman at the high school.
Denver Police (DPD) said the victim, 16, was injured on his left hand and arm.
One person is in custody, but Denver Public Schools and DPD wouldn't confirm if the 18-year-old suspect is a student— DPS just said no adults were involved in the incident. 9NEWS watched as police led a young man in handcuffs to an ambulance outside the high school Friday afternoon.
Cisse said the stabbing happened just minutes after the school day ended.
"When we went to the hallway, they were taping it off. We went to the sidewalk and then, there was whole bunch of blood on the sidewalk," Cisse said.
"We were like going to walk into the theater like normal, when we saw this huge crowd of people outside trying to come into the school, everyone was shouting and we were like, what was going on?" Miller said.
"They were banging on the walls, windows," added senior Zareen Bissinger and junior Madison Scott.
"My first thought was there's a shooter outside," Miller said.
“After we passed the crowd that’s like banging on the windows, then we’re walking down the hall and there’s just a trail of blood,” Bissinger said.
Miller, Scott and Bissinger said the minutes that followed were chaotic.
"We were in the theater for about 20 minutes, we're just sitting there, we don't know what to do. Our principal comes in and says we have to leave the premises and we're just like, what happened? We feel like there could have been more, like there has to be better procedure for this type of thing," Miller said.
Students say violence at their school isn't uncommon.
In September, a student at George Washington was arrested for bringing a gun to school.
Miller, Bissinger and Scott stressed that the SROs on campus are not making them feel safe.
"It seems like not very many of them really know what to do. It just kind of seems chaotic," Scott said. "Honestly, this type of situation happens so many times at our school that I can confidently say it seems chaotic every single time. People are running around trying to figure out what to do, and it seems like not even communication with the students but communication with our staff and faculty in general is just, they don't know what to do."
Students say they want to see DPS step up safety plans to better protect students and do more to communicate what's happening with students if and when something like this happens again.
“We just don’t know what’s going to happen, and when something does inevitably happen, it seems like we don’t know what to do in that situation and it seems like our administration doesn’t know what to do either," Scott said.
"Students are not okay. We're not doing okay," Bissinger said. "So what do we need to do to change that?"
9NEWS reached out to DPS after Friday's stabbing and about concerns from students over how it was handled.
A spokesperson for DPS said getting information out quickly in an evolving situation can be tricky. However, DPS said they're grateful the CSOs and SROs on campus responded to quickly help everyone involved.
The suspect was arrested for investigation of first-degree assault. DPD said the investigation is ongoing and declined to specify what the weapon was.
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