Students recount their experience after 2 students, teacher stabbed at Warren County middle school

WARRENTON, Mo. (First Alert 4) - “I just wanted all my friends to be okay and everyone else to be okay,” Keegan Aubuchon said.

Students and parents spoke with First Alert 4 as they were being reunited outside Black Hawk Middle School after two students and a teacher were stabbed inside the school.

Keegan, a sixth grader at Black Hawk Middle School, told First Alert 4 the stabbing happened outside his classroom.

“We sat there quietly and heard screaming,” Keegan said.

He said that he and his classmates were doing their work when a call for an intruder came over the intercom. He said they blocked the classroom door, turned off the lights in their classroom, got their phones to be able to reach their parents and hid in a corner of the classroom.

When he heard the screaming, Keegan said he just wanted his friends and everyone else to be okay.

“Luckily the police got him before he did anything else,” Keegan said.

Keegan was with his father while speaking with First Alert 4 outside the school.

“I’m just happy he’s okay,” Keegan’s dad said.

Drake Lynch, an 8th-grader at the middle school, said he heard screaming shortly after the school recited the Pledge of Allegiance.

He said he and his classmates thought it was a big fight in a nearby classroom at first.

The stabbing happened just before 8 a.m.

One student was airlifted to a St. Louis-area children’s hospital. Officials have confirmed that student is in stable condition. A teacher was taken by ambulance to a Warren County-area hospital. First Alert 4 has confirmed the teacher has been released from the hospital as of 1:50 p.m.

Another student was treated by EMS at the school and released to his parents.

“I got here as quick as I could,” James Besselman, a father of a 6th grader at the school, told First Alert 4. “The scene was still chaotic; it was a helicopter landing; ambulances were everywhere. Very, very chaotic.”

Besselman told First Alert 4 he feels like there’s a problem with bullying in the school. He said his student has been bullied for months.

“I don’t know what brought on this situation today, but I told them in the principal’s office that I don’t want my son to be a situation of, ‘What could we have done differently?’” he said. “I don’t know if there was bullying involved (in today’s incident), what happened, what provoked this. However, somebody knew something; somebody could have done something to prevent this.”