Campus Intruder Stabs Junior High Principal

The principal of Monroe Junior High School in Inglewood received a minor injury Friday when an intruder on the campus stabbed him in the chest with what appeared to be an ice pick, authorities said.

Lacy Alexander confronted three teen-agers on the school’s athletic field about 12:30 p.m. and asked them to leave, said district spokesman Maurice Wiley. The group refused and one of the young men lunged at Alexander with a sharp object. Alexander received a superficial wound in the area of his heart and was treated at Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital.

“We’re really shocked,” Wiley said. Of the two suspects taken into custody, one was identified as a freshman at Morningside High School in Inglewood and the other as a non-student, authorities said.