SANTA ROSA, Calif. (KRON) – A North Bay father is pissed off after his 15-year-old son was stabbed at his highschool and rushed to the hospital. He claims the varsity didn’t notify him when the stabbing occurred Tuesday.
The boy’s father says he’s solely had his 15-year-old enrolled at Elsie Allen Excessive College for 2 weeks. And now he desires solutions as to why this wasn’t dealt with higher.
Jesse Trejo says his son was in surgical procedure for about 4 hours after the stabbing,
“Scared, unhappy, anxious. He will get upset and begins shifting lots on the mattress. They needed to give extra medication to maintain him calm,” Trejo mentioned.
The stabbing occurred in a classroom simply earlier than the final bell. Police say a combat broke out between two college students when a 15-year-old boy pulled out a knife, stabbing the sufferer a number of instances.
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The boy was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgical procedure, however his father says he by no means received a name from the varsity. As an alternative, his daughter heard from her buddy, who’s a scholar at Elsie Allen and noticed the video on social media.
“Saying to (the sufferer’s sister) ‘I think your brother just got into the hospital, because we just had this incident, and I’m pretty sure it was brother because we’re receiving all this video and I think it’s your brother Christopher,’” Trejo defined,
Trejo says he received to the varsity almost an hour after the stabbing. Even then, he says nobody may inform him what was occurring.
“And I was like asking him where my son was. And he was like ‘We don’t know who your son is.’ I was like ‘I’m Jesse Trejo, the father of Christopher, the kid who just got into… I don’t know where he is… the hospital or?’ And he said ‘We don’t know the name of your son.’ Right now it’s an emergency and you don’t even know where my son is and which hospital?” Trejo mentioned.
Lastly, an officer confirmed Christopher was taken to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital with a number of stab wounds.
“Perhaps about 6-7 inches the minimize that he has on abdomen. One other minimize on his again by the arm. One on the facet,” Trejo mentioned.
After present process surgical procedure in Santa Rosa, Christopher was taken to the youngsters’s hospital in Oakland for speciality surgical procedure. Trejo says his son faces a protracted street to restoration.
“At this level we’re simply praying to God. All of us need him to be wholesome and get higher,” he mentioned.
Police are nonetheless attempting to determine what led as much as the combat.
This was the second stabbing at Elsie Allen this 12 months. The opposite scholar concerned was charged with tried homicide and booked into juvenile corridor.
Christopher is anticipated to be within the hospital for not less than two extra weeks. Trejo says he got here again to the varsity on Wednesday to get solutions as to why he wasn’t notified, however nonetheless he received nothing.
KRON4 reached out to the district. A spokesperson says they’re nonetheless trying into what occurred, however they need the boy a speedy restoration.
