Police responded to a neighborhood near Crenshaw High School Thursday following a report of a stabbing. Video broadcast Thursday Feb. 20, 2025 on the NBC4 News at 11 a.m.
One person was hospitalized in a stabbing Thursday that followed a dispute outside Crenshaw High School in Hyde Park.
The Los Angeles School Police Department requested LAPD perimeter support in the 5100 block of 11th Avenue around 9 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations Division.
In a statement, a LAUSD spokesperson said an "adult caregiver" was stabbed outside the school after an altercation between a group of people and a student on the campus.
Crenshaw High School was briefly locked down during the police search, which led to at least one arrest.
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"This morning, individuals came on to campus and were involved in a physical altercation with one of our students before school," according to a LAUSD spokesperson. "The altercation escalated and unfortunately resulted in stabbing of an adult caregiver outside of the school. The adult victim transported himself to a nearby hospital. The school immediately contacted the Los Angeles Unified School Police who responded to the school to support.
"School Police has apprehended suspects that were involved in the incident."
Details about the stabbing victim's condition were not immediately available.
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Details about what led to the stabbing were not immediately available. Several evidence markers were placed in an intersection that was blocked off by police tape.
