15-Year-Old Girl Stabs 17-Year-Old Boy Inside Maryland High School

A 15-year-old girl stabbed a 17-year-old boy inside a Columbia high school in Maryland. The female student was found and taken into custody, police said.

The incident occurred at Hammond High School in Howard County on Thursday, CBS News reported. Officers from the Howard County Police Department responded to the school just before 1 p.m. after receiving a call about a high schooler being stabbed.

The accused student had left the school but was found a short while after the cops arrived. The victim was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and released the same evening.

"The school resource officer was on-scene and responded immediately. The victim was transported to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center with injuries believed to be non-life-threatening," the police department said in a statement.

Police said the two students knew each other before the incident. However, further details about their relationship or the circumstances that led to the stabbing were not immediately released.

"We're still investigating the nature of the relationship between these two students. We are certainly looking into whether there had been any sort of romantic involvement in the past. At this point, it's still under active investigation," Howard County police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn was quoted saying.

The school was placed under a modified lockdown that was eventually lifted. Students were dismissed at the usual time and took part in after-school activities. Parents reportedly could not contact their children for some time while the lockdown was in place.

Police told WUSA9 that a fight had broken out near the football field and led to the teenager stabbing her fellow high schooler.

Parents and residents expressed concern after hearing about the stabbing incident.

"I'm extremely concerned. I'm very concerned for the student who was injured and for all the students who were impacted by this today," Nicole Salvia, a parent living in Hammond, told WBAL-TV 11 Baltimore.

"I really feel bad again for the kids that had to experience this and then now they're trying to make sense of this trauma," Nicole Christy, who lives in Columbia, told CBS News.