One thing that should always be remembered about a reported active shooter event is that it may not be a shooting at all. While the mainstream media (and the rest of us) seem to focus on SHOOTING events, the history of the world is replete with such attacks committed with other weapons. We often see explosive attacks as well, and less often reported but equally horrific – slashing/stabbing attacks.
On April 9, 2014, just one week after a traveling shooting attack at Fort Hood, Texas, the students in Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, found themselves under attack from a fellow student who was using two butcher knives (commonly found in almost any kitchen) as his primary weapons.
On the morning of April 9th, Alex Hribal, a sophomore in the school, reportedly started stabbing and slashing students in the school’s ground floor hallway designated as the science hallway. Before he was stopped by a vice-principal and another student, Hribal had stabbed or cut twenty students and one school security officer. Allegedly while being held and restrained, Hribal still refused to drop his knives and was yelling that he had not yet finished his work; that he had more killing to do.
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The remainder of this article is part of the book "Active Killers and the Crimes They Perpetrated," available in print or ebook via Amazon.
Joshua Borelli
Joshua Borelli has been studying active shooter and mass attack events over the course of the past several years, commensurate with receiving training on response and recovery to natural disasters and civil disturbances. Joshua started to outline this series of articles in an attempt to identify commonalities and logistical needs patterns for response.
