{"id":281539,"date":"2025-11-13T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281539\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:26:12","slug":"police-taser-student-armed-with-knife-at-north-sydney-boys-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281539\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Taser student armed with knife at North Sydney Boys High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A student who police say was armed with a knife has been Tasered and arrested at a high school in Sydney&#8217;s north.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to North Sydney Boys High following an &#8220;altercation&#8221; between two students in a classroom about 12.30pm today.<\/p>\n<p>Police said one of the students left the classroom armed with a knife.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/592a322a-9db8-4c24-8399-b10168787ee9.png\"   alt=\"Police surrounding a student armed with a knife at North Sydney Boys High.\"\/>Police surrounding a student armed with a knife at North Sydney Boys High. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>The school was placed into lockdown for an hour as police searched for the teenage student, before he was found by officers, then Tasered and arrested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was pretty confronting to be honest, because of the size of the knife,&#8221; a witness told 9News. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The boy was taken to hospital, and the lockdown lifted about 1.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>The NSW Department of Education said the lockdown had been used &#8220;as a precaution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\ufeffAll students and staff are safe, and students resumed classes after 1.30pm,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A student who police say was armed with a knife has been Tasered and arrested at a high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-281539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}