Devin Scott, 15, who was fatally stabbed at Harding High School on Friday. Photo from Family GoFundMe
The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office filed the juvenile petition on Tuesday, outlining more details about the fatal incident.
SAINT PAUL: Report of stabbing at Harding High School, 1540 6th St. E. - Suspect is said to be in custody inside the school. Unknown extent of injury.
According to the petition, police were called at 11:46 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 10 to Harding High School for a report of an assault of a student. Police arrived and found the victim, identified by the Ramsey County Medical Examiner as 15-year-old Devin Scott, with stab wounds in the hallway.
Lifesaving measures were being performed by school staff. Once paramedics arrived, they transported Scott to Regions Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Investigators with the Saint Paul Police Department interviewed the assistant principal who said he was walking the hallways between class times when he saw Scott and another student arguing with a third student. He then saw the students drop their bags and begin fighting, the documents allege.
The principal identified the three individuals involved in the fight as Scott, another student only identified by initials, and the suspect, 16-year-old Nosakhere Kazeem Holmes.
The assistant principal told investigators that Holmes has been a student since the beginning of the school year, Scott had just begun attending school that day after transferring from another school, while the third student involved started earlier that week.
