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Alex Hribal was charged Wednesday evening with two dozen felony counts after 20 students and a security guard were stabbed at Franklin Senior Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

Alex Hribal, a 16-year-old sophomore at the same suburban Pittsburgh high school, was held without bail on four counts of attempted homicide, 21 counts of aggravated assault and a misdemeanor count of carrying a prohibited weapon.

At least four people remained in intensive care with life-threatening injuries after the rampage Wednesday morning at Franklin Senior Regional High School.

Alex Hribal was remanded to juvenile detention pending a preliminary hearing April 30 in Westmoreland County Magisterial Court.

Prosecutors told Judge Charles R. Conway that Alex Hribal “randomly and indiscriminately” wielded his knives in a hallway at the school and indicated that “he wanted to die.”

They said it was unclear whether he was competent to stand trial.

Alex Hribal was charged with two dozen felony counts after 20 students and a security guard were stabbed at Franklin Senior Regional High School in Murrysville

Alex Hribal was charged with two dozen felony counts after 20 students and a security guard were stabbed at Franklin Senior Regional High School in Murrysville

Attorneys for Alex Hribal – who sat head-down in court in a hospital gown, bearing numerous bandages and stitches with his hands and feet shackled – asked for a psychiatric evaluation.

Alex Hribal was well-known to many at Franklin High, who called him a good student – certainly not someone you would expect to go off violently.

But for some reason, he left the home he’s lived in since he was 2 years old Wednesday morning and arrived at school with two 8-inch-long long straight knives, according to the criminal complaint.

The boy was able to get the knives into the school because it doesn’t have metal detectors – Murrysville is a peaceful Pittsburgh suburb of about 21,000.

Once he was there, Alex Hribal began stabbing and slashing at random, wounding 20 classmates and John Resetar, a uniformed security guard, according to the complaint.

There were no obvious clues that Alex Hribal was troubled – no inflammatory social media postings or reports to authorities.

He apparently had no cellphone, the FBI said. But he did have a computer, which the FBI seized.

And he may have left clues or other evidence elsewhere. At least 10 FBI agents and a forensics truck flocked to the family’s home, and Scott Smith of the FBI said investigators were out in the field executing multiple search warrants late Wednesday afternoon.

At the Murrysville home, Alex Hribal’s father said he had no comment beyond sending out prayers to everyone concerned.

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At least 20 students have been injured in a mass stabbing at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, authorities have said.

A 16-year-old student was taken into custody at the high school in Murrysville, a suburb of Pittsburgh, police said.

The wounded, many with significant injuries, were as young as 14. Several were in surgery in hospital.

As many as seven students were stabbed in the torso, a doctor told reporters.

Eight patients were transported to nearby Forbes Regional Hospital, three of whom had suffered severe injuries.

At least 20 students have been injured in a mass stabbing at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville

At least 20 students have been injured in a mass stabbing at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville

Two of those patients were in critical condition, while up to four were expected to recover from superficial wounds, Dr. Mark Rubino told reporters.

The initial report of the attack came before 08:00 local time on Wednesday morning.

“A critical incident has occurred at the high school,” school officials wrote in a bulletin.

“All elementary schools are cancelled, the middle school and high school students are secure.”

The panicked students poured out of the school building, some suffering injuries in the chaos, as police descended in search of the suspected attacker.

Among the injured was a security guard, Murrysville Police Chief Thomas Seefeld said.

Morris Hundley told CBS television his “frantic” 14-year-old daughter Morriah called him to say a friend of hers had been stabbed at the school in Murrysville.

“I would never expect this to happen,” he said, adding that he had believed the community to be safe.

The suspect, a male student, is said to have used two knives in the attack. He has been taken into custody for questioning.

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