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   Fitzgerald Senior High School   
   Public 9-12   
      
    23200 Ryan Rd   
          Warren, MI  48091-4551   
      
    (586) 757-7070   
      
   District: FitzGerald Public Schools   
      
   SchoolDigger Rank:   
   556th of 824 Michigan High Schools   
      
      
   Student/teacher ratio:  20.8   
   Number of students:  918   
      
   Racial breakdown:   
   African American:46.1%   
   White:29.7%   
   Asian:17.4%   
   Free/discounted lunch recipients:  86.7%   
      
   WARREN, Mich. – They were straight-A students and onetime   
   friends, police said, but a dispute involving a boy may have led   
   one girl to stab another girl to death in a Warren classroom   
   Wednesday.   
      
   A 16-year-old Warren girl died Wednesday morning, less than an   
   hour after she was stabbed twice in the chest with a kitchen-   
   style steak knife at Fitzgerald High School, Warren Police   
   Commissioner William Dwyer said. He said a teacher and 20 to 30   
   other students were in the classroom when the stabbing occurred.   
      
   "I froze. I didn't know what to do. I just saw one of my friends   
   just dying," Victoria Oraczko, 16, of Warren told the Free Press.   
      
   She said she was in the classroom where the stabbing occurred   
   and that her backpack was covered in blood.   
      
   The suspect, a 17-year-old Warren girl, was taken into custody   
   without incident, Dwyer said, and a homicide charge will be   
   sought. Charges could come as early as Thursday from the Macomb   
   County Prosecutor's Office.   
      
   Dwyer declined to release the names of the victim, the suspect   
   or the school resource officer who began CPR on the victim after   
   hearing screams about 8:30 a.m.   
      
   Dwyer said the victim died about 9:25 a.m. at St. John Macomb-   
   Oakland Hospital in Madison Heights. She was, at one point,   
   friends with the suspect, he said. He said they were both   
   seniors at the school.   
      
   He said police were told the victim was involved in school   
   activities, including cross country, robotics, color guard,   
   marching band, student council and Generation of Promise.   
      
   "It's truly a tragedy. Two lives are ruined," Dwyer said, adding   
   the the girls were good students who had not been in trouble   
   before. "This is truly a tragedy on both sides."   
      
   Dwyer said the suspect was upset with the victim because she   
   thought the victim was telling the suspect's 17-year-old   
   boyfriend that the suspect was cheating on him.   
      
   Dwyer said there were texts between the suspect and her   
   boyfriend, but he declined to comment further on them. He said   
   police received information later Wednesday that the suspect and   
   boyfriend drove to school together to resolve their differences   
   Wednesday morning.   
      
   He said the male student is cooperating with police. He said the   
   suspect made an admission, but he would not release further   
   details.   
      
   Dwyer said a knife, which had been brought to school in a   
   backpack, was recovered.   
      
   The high school closed early Wednesday after being on lock-down   
   and will be closed Thursday.   
      
   No one could be immediately reached at the high school office or   
   at the district superintendent’s office.   
      
   According to an announcement on the Fitzgerald Public Schools’   
   website from Superintendent Laurie Fournier, psychologists and   
   counselors will be available for staff and students at the   
   school. School officials are also working with police, and   
   reviewing safety procedures and protocol, according to the   
   statement.   
      
   "Our hearts and prayers go out to the student’s family and we   
   offer our deepest sympathy," Fournier said in the statement.   
      
   Lisa Crabtree of Warren was waiting outside the high school   
   Wednesday morning for her daughter, Abygail, 13, to be released   
   from class. Crabtree said her daughter relayed to her that   
   police were escorting students out class by class.   
      
   "She's scared to death in there," Crabtree said of her daughter,   
   a freshman.   
      
   Oraczko said she was at the teacher's desk trying to get her   
   homework after being absent Tuesday when the stabbing occurred.   
   She said she got pushed from behind and heard someone screaming,   
   "She's gonna kill me! She's gonna kill me!"   
      
   Oraczko said she thought someone was playing around, but then   
   she saw the suspect with a knife, the victim fall on the floor   
   and a "pool of blood starts to form." She said the suspect got   
   dragged away by the teacher, and she said she saw the victim   
   getting CPR.   
      
   Dwyer said his department couldn't recall a slaying in a high   
   school in years.   
      
   He said security at the school is "the best we can do." Dwyer,   
   who is also an Oakland County Commissioner, said he -- in   
   general -- has advocated for making funding available to schools   
   for metal detectors, like those at airports, and other security   
   measures.   
      
      
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