"...a teacher in an adjacent classroom heard Gilbert's screams, saw blood on the floor and shouted at the youth to stop. The student stopped his attack, sat at a desk and put his head down..."
The Backstory, and today, this from the Chicago Tribune:
Charges against a 16-year-old Elgin High School student accused of stabbing a teacher last week have been upgraded to attempted first-degree murder, prosecutors said Tuesday at a hearing in Cook County Juvenile Court.
Charges against a 16-year-old Elgin High School student accused of stabbing a teacher last week have been upgraded to attempted first-degree murder, prosecutors said Tuesday at a hearing in Cook County Juvenile Court.
The youth, who is not being identified because he has been charged as a juvenile, had taken a class last year from teacher Carolyn Gilbert, and on Friday, he asked whether he could wait in her classroom until his bus arrived, prosecutors said.
She said he could and was beginning to turn to some of her work when he ran up behind her, threw a coat over her head and stabbed her in the neck, head and upper body, said Kevin Frey, an assistant state's attorney....
...Gilbert, a family and consumer science teacher, has lost vision in one eye and may lose the eye, officials have said...
Photo from the Daily Herald: Elgin High School teacher lost vision in knife attack
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