Middle schooler in Kansas City stabbed to death in school bathroom

A student at Northeast Middle School in Kansas City has died after he was found stabbed inside a school bathroom Tuesday morning, according to police.

Officers responded after 9 a.m. to the school at 4904 Independence Ave. in the South Indian Mound neighborhood on reports of a stabbing. Arriving officers found the victim, a male student, inside a bathroom with stab wounds and immediately began rendering first aid along with school security. Emergency medical crews responded and took the student to a hospital.

Late Tuesday night, police announced that the student had died of his injuries.

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