{"id":420573,"date":"2026-10-06T20:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420573\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T20:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:52:21","slug":"student-arrested-for-bringing-a-knife-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420573\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Arrested for Bringing a Knife to School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/edrik-allen-knife.jpg\" alt=\"Student Arrested for Bringing a Knife to School\" class=\"pr-3 pb-3\" aria-label=\"Student Arrested for Bringing a Knife to School\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has arrested a 14-year-old student for bringing a knife to Morgan High School.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On October 5, 2026, at 7:57 a.m., several students were involved in a fight. Edrik Allen, 14, hit another student during the altercation. Allen then took a knife out of his pocket and started following one of the students involved. HCSO&#8217;s school resource deputy stopped, arrested Allen and confiscated the knife.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Allen has been charged with:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tAggravated Assault With Deadly Weapon&#13;<br \/>\n\tPossession of a Weapon on School Property&#13;<br \/>\n\tBattery&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This could have ended in serious injury, or worse, if not for our school resource deputy&#8217;s quick action,&#8221;\u00a0said Sheriff Chad Chronister.\u00a0&#8220;Weapons have no place on school campuses. Anyone who brings one onto a campus or threatens another student with one will be arrested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is an ongoing investigation, and any updates will come from the Public Affairs Office.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Additional Images<\/p>\n<p>                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/edrik-allen.jpg\" alt=\"Student Arrested for Bringing a Knife to School Supporting Image\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has arrested a 14-year-old student for bringing a knife to Morgan High School.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-420573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}