8th-grader stabs classmate in the eye with a pencil at middle school, SC police say
An eighth-grade student is accused of attacking another middle schooler Monday and stabbing them in the eye and face with a pencil, according to the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office.
The victim, also in eighth grade, told deputies that the attack was unprovoked and the suspect just started stabbing with the pencil, a sheriff’s office report said.
The students, who are not named because of their ages, both attend Camp Road Middle School in Charleston, South Carolina.
The report states the two had gotten into a fight earlier in the school year.
Before the attack the suspect gave a drawing to another student that showed someone being attacked with a pencil, according to the police report. The drawing also had the phrases “One sick joke” and “Funny (expletive) story,” the report says.
The incident was not caught on camera but was witnessed by several students before being broken up by school staff, deputies said. “The pencil in question was not located,” according to the report.
The suspect will be charged with assault and battery, deputies said.
The victim was taken to a doctor with cuts to his face and eyelid, deputies said.
