BHS Fight Sends One To Hospital

BrocktonPost
BROCKTON--An 18-year-old Taunton man is expected to be arraigned in Brockton District Court after allegedly stabbing another student in the back while in school at Brockton High this morning.
According to police records, Joshua Silva, an 18-year-old sophomore from Taunton faces felony assault and battery with a dangerous weapon--a knife, assault to murder and possession of a dangerous weapon on school grounds.
In a statement from school officials, authorities said shortly after 8 a.m. this morning two 18-year-old males had a physical confrontation on school grounds.
When the students were brought to the Red Housemaster’s office to resolve the issue, one of the young men Silva, pulled out a carpet knife and cut the other.
School administrators rushed to break up the fight.
Silva was arrested by school police.
The victim, a senior at Brockton High, was taken
to Signature Brockton Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
“This is an aberration,” said Superintendent Matthew H. Malone in a prepared statement. “Brockton High School is a safe and supportive learning environment, an urban high school that has been held up as a national model of excellence. We are appalled that this incident has taken place. We do not condone and will not tolerate violence.”
Principal Susan Szachowicz immediately addressed the incident with students and staff
via the school’s public address system, and then sent an automated phone call to parents to communicate the situation with them.
“No child in any school, but certainly at Brockton High, should ever have to witness
something like this,” Szachowicz said in the statement.