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A teenager was seriously injured in a stabbing following a playoff high school basketball game at Eric Hamber Secondary in Vancouver on Monday night.
Sgt. Steve Addison of the Vancouver Police Department said it happened around 9 p.m. at the school on 33rd Avenue at the end of a game between the Eric Hamber Griffins and Killarney Secondary Cougars senior basketball teams.
Senior teams comprise both Grade 11 and 12 students.
“Police believe fights broke out between spectators, resulting in an 18-year-old boy being stabbed in the arm. The stabbing victim was taken to hospital and received medical treatment,” said Addison, adding the teen was seriously injured.
Police are asking anyone who took cellphone video during the fight or while the game was taking place to contact the VPD’s youth investigative unit at 604-717-0614.
No arrests have been made.
Video taken inside Eric Hamber Secondary shows small groups of boys fighting, with one boy in a white hoodie shedding his backpack and attacking several other boys. The Killarney team appears during the fray, with adults holding the boys back in panic.
An 18-year-old was stabbed following fights between spectators after a high school basketball game at Eric Hamber Secondary in Vancouver Monday night 🏀🚨
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Police say the incident happened just after 9 p.m. as the game between Eric Hamber and Killarney Secondary was wrapping up.… pic.twitter.com/7Yrx9lFFr4
Addison said several fights broke out at the end of the game. The game was won in overtime by the Killarney Cougars 97-95.
Addison said additional police school liaison officers would be sent to both schools. The victim was a former Vancouver school board student.
A letter sent from the Vancouver school board to parents at both schools stated several people had been injured during the fight.