Northeast Middle School in Kansas City has metal detectors at the entrance. Students are only allowed to carry clear backpacks, which are searched every day. And a student resource officer and security patrol the halls.
But even so, Kansas City Public Schools officials are now left to investigate how a student could have been stabbed in the school on Tuesday, to then be found suffering from critical wounds inside a bathroom. That student, identified as 14-year-old Manuel J. Guzman, died after he was transported to a hospital.
Another male student was charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon in Jackson County Juvenile Court. His identity was not made public as of Thursday morning.
