Update: Sebastian Montes reports in the Gazette, Gaithersburg teens home after stabbing:
The victim, from Gaithersburg, has been released from an undisclosed hospital he was flown to after his mother took him to a local hospital Tuesday night with life-threatening injuries, said county police spokeswoman Lucille Baur.
The suspect, also from Gaithersburg, was released into his parents’ custody with an electronic monitoring device on his ankle after an emergency hearing Thursday afternoon in juvenile court in Rockville, said Beth Blauer, spokeswoman for the state Department of Juvenile Services.
The suspect was charged as a juvenile with attempted second-degree murder and carrying a weapon openly with intent to injure.
Lori Aratani and Daniel de Vise write in The Washington Post:
Montgomery County police have charged a 13-year-old Gaithersburg boy with stabbing another 13-year-old boy in the stomach with a pocketknife during an argument at a playground Tuesday afternoon.
The victim, while bleeding, got into a fight with another boy before attempting to treat the stab wound and returning home, where he hid the gash from his parents until the evening, police said. His potentially life-threatening injury went untreated for several hours.
According to the Post, the playground where this happened was on Benji Court, which is between Girard Street and Kelly Park, south of Victory Farm Drive. The victim was taken by his mother to a hospital, from which he was later flown to another hospital, where he remained as of the Post’s publication.