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Teen Stabbed Outside Maple Mountain High Homecoming, 16-Year-Old Arrested

Police say the suspect is held in juvenile detention pending an investigation of the parking-lot altercation.

Overview

  • Spanish Fork officers were dispatched around 9:20 p.m. Saturday to Maple Mountain High School on a report of a stabbing.
  • The altercation between juveniles occurred in a parking lot east of the school during the homecoming dance.
  • First responders treated a 17-year-old with a leg stab wound at the scene before transporting him to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
  • A 16-year-old suspect briefly fled but was located shortly after and taken into custody, police said.
  • The suspect was booked into Slate Canyon Detention Center on one count of aggravated assault as the case remains under investigation.