Teen hospitalized in critical condition after assault outside Edmonton high school
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Police are investigating after an assault outside an Edmonton high school sent a teen to hospital in critical condition.
Police said in a news release that there were reports of an assault near McNally High School in the Forest Heights neighbourhood of Edmonton around 2:45 p.m. Friday afternoon.
An Edmonton Fire Rescue Services unit attended the scene and treated the victim — a male youth — and once EMS arrived, he was transported to hospital. The victim remains in hospital in stable, but critical condition, police said.
A spokesperson for Alberta Health Services also confirmed to CBC News a teenage male was taken to hospital by EMS in critical, life-threatening condition.
Jaydaan Bayne, a former student who lives near the school, said there was a crowd of people near the bus stop Friday afternoon when he saw police cars arrive on the scene, followed by a fire truck and EMS.
"They got a stretcher, they pulled the kid up onto the stretcher ... they gave him chest compressions the whole time into the ambulance," he recalled.
Bayne said the ambulance had a police escort as it headed off.
Police said no further information is available at this time.
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