CASHMERE – A freshman at Cashmere High School was being held Friday in the stabbing of an older student who allegedly insulted him with ethnic slurs, officials said.
Dane Montgomery, 16, of Wenatchee, suffered at least eight knife wounds to his back, side and chest in the Thursday attack, according to court records. Montgomery was released after treatment at Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee.
The 14-year-old told authorities he stabbed Montgomery with a 3-inch knife after Montgomery had called him names disparaging his Latino heritage, court records showed.
The 14-year-old was arrested Thursday at his home in Cashmere, about 15 miles northwest of Wenatchee. He received an emergency expulsion for having a weapon on school grounds, Cashmere schools superintendent Lynn Baker said.
At a preliminary hearing Friday afternoon, the boy was ordered held on $50,000 bond for investigation of first-degree assault.
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