{"id":414752,"date":"2026-01-17T06:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/414752\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T06:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:28:10","slug":"calgary-police-investigating-stabbing-outside-southwest-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/414752\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary police investigating stabbing outside southwest high school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Calgary police say one person is in custody following a stabbing that happened outside <a href=\"https:\/\/henrywisewood.cbe.ab.ca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Wise Wood High School<\/a> in the southwest Calgary community of Kelvin Grove on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At around 2 p.m., police say, there were several calls made to 911 that someone had been stabbed on a Calgary Transit bus.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tA large number of police officers gather outside Henry Wise Wood High School in Calgary on Friday afternoon after a 17-year-old was taken to hospital in life-threatening condition after being stabbed.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Calgary police responded and discovered a 17-year-old victim in life-threatening condition who was rushed to Foothills Hospital by ambulance with the help of a police escort.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>His condition has since been upgraded to stable.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>While police say the stabbing did not occur on school grounds, the school was put into lockdown as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>The offender, who fled the scene, was later taken into police custody a short time later at a different location.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tThe stabbing took place around 2 p.m. on Friday at a bus stop, across the street from Henry Wise Wood High School in the southwest Calgary community of Kelvin Grove.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police don\u2019t know, or won\u2019t say, whether the suspect or victim were students at the school, but CPS Duty Insp. Darren Smith says they are of similar age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that they did know each other. The extent of the relationship, we don\u2019t know at this point.\u00a0 We don\u2019t believe this is a random attack. We believe it was targeted,\u201d said Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Police say there were students in the area who witnessed the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The CBE says there will be resources available at the school on Monday for students who want someone to speak with about the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tCalgary police say there were several students in the area at the time of the stabbing who witnessed it take place.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Several roads in the area around the school, which is located at 910 \u2013 75 Avenue southwest, were also shut down with police warning the closures were expected to continue through the busy evening rush hour.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Calgary police say one person is in custody following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[174336,2169,43,174335,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-414752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-calgary-school-stabbing","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-henry-wise-wood-high-school","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}