AUBURN HILLS (WWJ) -- An Oakland County high school student has been taken to a hospital, but is expected to be OK after a stabbing Tuesday morning.
According to a school district spokesman, at around 8:30 a.m., there was an argument between two teenage boys in a bathroom at Avondale High School in Auburn Hills. At some point, one student pulled out a knife and stabbed the other student.
The 16-year-old suspect was seen on camera leaving the building, but police were able to locate him within about an hour and said he was speaking with investigators.
Police said the victim, age 15, suffered "minor non-life threatening injuries."
No other students were injured in the incident, police said, with Auburn Hills Police Deputy Chief Scott McGraw calling this an "isolated incident between two students."
The high school, at Auburn and Squirrel roads, as well as the nearby Auburn Elementary were put into a brief soft lockdown, meaning kids were kept in their classrooms until police gave the all clear. The lockdown has since been lifted.
Reporting from outside the school later in the morning, WWJ Newsradio 950's Tim Pamplin said there was a heavy police presence, along with parents who opted to come pick up their kids.
"That's not mandatory," Pamplin said. "That's a decision that the parents and the students can make together, as to whether or not they feel comfortable at this school."
McGraw and the suspect is likely facing criminal charges and expulsion from school as the police, and district, try to figure out how the knife got by the school's weapons detection systems.
"It's tragic," McGraw told Pamplin and other reporters. "School violence and these arguments escalate very, very quickly."
He said the school district is working with police on the ongoing investigation.
No names were released.