{"id":162109,"date":"2026-04-10T06:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162109\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:17:20","slug":"teen-who-tried-to-stop-stabbing-at-pittsburgh-high-school-receives-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162109\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen who tried to stop stabbing at Pittsburgh high school receives award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c69e00e100b41b02421ed77932b2f2fe.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southpittsburghcoalitionforpeace.org\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawRFNNdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFhU04wTDc5UVZ5Y1NocUVlc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHm-luEz52nm7o9wj1stRnT7Q7QKIZkugRJ7AeMG1jXiMSBYRP7VhXi-QV0gO_aem_gv_xpLA3Vwon9VOBixCp6w\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The South Pittsburgh Coalition for Peace;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The South Pittsburgh Coalition for Peace&quot;}\" class=\"link \">The South Pittsburgh Coalition for Peace<\/a> recognized a teen for taking a stand against violence at Carrick High School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The organization presented Tymiere Oakes with a Young Peacekeeper Award for stepping in during a stabbing earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Organizers said the award is given to kids who prevent or violence or keep peace within their schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/2-students-stabbed-carrick-high-school-pittsburgh-sources-say\/A35FQQOXUFCCRG2KQBUGYHJMPE\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; 3 students injured in stabbing at Carrick High School in Pittsburgh, student facing charges;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;PREVIOUS COVERAGE &amp;gt&quot;}\" class=\"link \">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; 3 students injured in stabbing at Carrick High School in Pittsburgh, student facing charges<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHe tried to intervene and stop the other kids from being stabbed, and in turn, he was stabbed. So he deserves this award. He is a young hero,\u201d Reverend Eileen Smith said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The group says the teen hopes to work in secondary education and continue his work of being a peacemaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;FREE WPXI News app&quot;}\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Facebook&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Twitter&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Watch WPXI NOW&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South Pittsburgh Coalition for Peace recognized a teen for taking a stand against violence at Carrick High&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6983,73203,73,75,74,73202],"class_list":["post-162109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-carrick-high-school","tag-eileen-smith","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-tymiere-oakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}