BEDFORD – Bedford Police officers responded to Parkview Primary on Saturday at 3:29 p.m. after a report of a battery and a teen injured. An IU LifeLine ambulance was on the scene and treated a young male with lacerations.
When police arrived they found three teens sitting on a stone wall and another laying on the ground.
A 14-year-old male told police he had been stabbed. He had suffered a laceration to his upper arm and to the right side of his back. Another 15-year-old teen also suffered a wound to his back.
The teens initially told officers they didn’t know who had injured them but said the male was wearing grey pants and blue shoes. One of the teens told police he “felt a poke on his back and then noticed blood on his shirt”.
The teens said the incidents happened at Circle K at 1428 16th Street and at the Thornton Park Pavilion.
The injured 14-year-old was transported by IU LifeLine Ambulance to the hospital for treatment. The other injured teen was treated at the scene and transported to Bedford Police Department.
Officers went to Thornton Park and Circle K. At Thornton Park Pavilion they found blood droplets and interviewed potential witnesses.
One witness captured the suspect on her security camera running between her house on 17th Street down the alley and then continuing south down P Street.
Officers were able to identify the 14-year-old male teen involved in the stabbing and spoke with his father. The father told police his son was at a home in the 1000 block of Park Avenue and they would not speak to officers until he could contact an attorney. Officers told the father they would be applying for an arrest warrant. Officers secured that warrant and went to the home to detain the teen.
The teen was arrested without incident and transported to the Bedford Police Department on two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
Juvenile probation was contacted and the teen was transported to the Dickinson Juvenile Justice Center in Johnson County until his hearing today at 11:30 a.m. in Lawrence County Juvenile Court.
