Student stabbed after football game at Lucas Secondary School, police investigating

A London high school student was stabbed after a football game at Lucas Secondary School Thursday night, police say.

Officers say they were called to the high school at about 9 p.m. and found a 16-year-old boy with a stab wound. He was taken to hospital and treated for a minor injury.

"The investigation revealed that a group of youths were involved in the altercation, and this was not a random incident," said Sgt. Sandasha Bough.

School board officials sent a message to the parents of Lucas students saying the "isolated serious incident" happened during a football game on the school property and the suspect left. "There is no threat to the school community," principal George Bullas wrote in an email.

The traumatic events response team is at the school this morning to help staff and students impacted by the violence. Students at the school say they're unnerved.

"It's scary because people are coming from we don't even know where and hurting kids that are literally friends to us and literally part of our community," said Madelyn Dahl, 16, a Grade 11 student at Lucas.

"There's little Grade 9s that are just coming to school, this is their first year here and they have to go through that. It's not right."

Students who were at the game, the first Lucas home game of the season, described a chaotic scene before things settled down.

"After the football game was over, there was a homecoming celebration and then we saw people running back toward the parking lot and one guy walking toward the gym. He wasn't walking normally," said DK Khalid, 17, a Grade 12 student.

"Five minutes later, we see cops showing up. A teacher found the kid in the gym and called the cops, I guess. We're glad that he's safe."

Khalid's friend Devante Williams, 16, said the school is normally quiet, but was anything but Thursday night.

"I saw a bunch of cop cars pull up and people yelling 'Someone got stabbed, someone got stabbed, and then a whole bunch of people were running inside," said Williams, who is in Grade 11.

London police are continuing to investigate.