4 students, 1 security guard stabbed at Tacoma high school

A student at a Tacoma, Washington, high school has been booked on five counts of first-degree assault after four students and an adult security guard were stabbed at the school Thursday, police said.

The Associated Press reports that five people from Foss High School have been hospitalized with injuries, said a spokesperson for the Tacoma Fire Department.

A sixth person was in police custody and taken to a hospital with minor injuries, she said.

All of those wounded were either stabbed or cut, said Shelbie Boyd, a spokesperson for the Tacoma Police Department. The suspect was among those cut in the altercation.

The school went into lockdown at 1:38 p.m. after the violence began and students were safely dismissed at 2:45 p.m., Tacoma Public Schools said in a statement.