Sad New Details About The Teen Girl Who Stabbed Her Friend To Death At School Over A Boy
The victim was only 16 years old.
Facebook A 16-year-old girl is dead after her 17-year-old friend stabbed her to death over a boy.
According to police, the suspect fatally stabbed the victim with a steak knife twice in the chest Wednesday morning at Fitzgerald High School in Warren, Michigan in front of 20 to 30 students and a teacher.
The victim, Dayana Gibson, died at the hospital an hour later.
The two straight-A teen girls reportedly got into a fight after text messages revealed they were both romantically involved with the same boy. The girls apparently used to be friends, but were not anymore.
That student is cooperating with police.
"I didn't think that this would ever in a million years happen at Fitz," said Donald, a friend of the victim. "It was fearful. And you could just hear the people running from it."
“I froze. I didn’t know what to do. I just saw one of my friends just dying,” Victoria Oraczko, a 16-year-old student, told the Detroit Free Press.
According to witnesses, the teacher tried to push the suspect off of Gibson while another student called 911. It was the school's security officer ran to the scene and found the victim.
"The school resource officer did a superb job. He was there administering CPR within seconds trying to save this young girl's life," said Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer.
A classmate of Gibson's wrote a post about the incident on Facebook.
"The incident that occurred in my classroom today was not a provoked attack, there was no argument that lead up to this She was killed in cold blood for no reason other than being friends with a boy," the post reads.
"Witnessing this was something I had never wanted to experience, but I did and it's only right for people to know the truth and not an article with only slight facts. Please do not believe that this was a provoked attack, she was doing nothing but her work when she was attacked."
The suspect, who had not been named, is expected to be charged with murder on Thursday.
Emily Blackwood is an editor at YourTango covering all things news, lifestyle and true crime.