Spring High School stabbing

The stabbings took place within a context of ethnicity-related tensions between rival gangs within the student body at Spring High where, in the decade before this brawl, the white population fell from 65% to 29%.

[2] This is largely to the influx of black families from Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana relocating to the Houston area and Spring High taking many students into their school.

The district gave automated phone and e-mail messages to the parents of students approximately three hours after the stabbings occurred.

[3] The sole fatality was Joshua Broussard, who died at the scene after being stabbed multiple times in the abdomen.

17-year-old Randall Moore and an unidentified 16-year-old student were treated for minor injuries, while 16-year-old Deavean Bazile was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition.

Superintendent Draper responded to the latter issue, stating that there was a primary focus on securing the school and ensuring that no compromissory action would be taken against the investigation before the details would be sent to parents.

[3][failed verification] During a memorial service held for Joshua Broussard on September 8, 2013, an altercation between groups of young men occurred in the Spring Baptist Church parking lot.