FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE:
Police have named one of two teens arrested and charged in the stabbing at Meade High School on Thursday.
18-year-old JaQuan Ky'lee Guy and his 14-year-old brother, both students at the school, have been charged with Attempted First Degree Murder, among other charges.
Police also say the stabbing happened in a bathroom on the second floor of the school.
The 17-year-old victim was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. According to charging documents, he needed immediate emergency surgery, but was also able to identify the suspects to police.
UPDATE:
According to Anne Arundel County Police, two people with an alleged connection to the stabbing at Meade High School were taken into custody Thursday night. The investigation is still ongoing.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
Update on Meade High School stabbing
Original Article:
Students at Meade High School spent most of the school day in lockdown, and parents spent the day anxiously waiting until they could pick up their kids.
Police weren’t letting anyone on school property as they continued searching for a suspect, so they asked parents to refrain from coming to pick up their kids until their normal dismissal time, which is shortly after 3 pm.
There is still no suspect in custody and no weapon has been recovered.
Just after 10 a.m., a school resource officer found a 17-year-old boy in a hallway suffering from stab wounds.
The teenager was taken to shock trauma where police say he is conscious, alert, and listed in stable but serious condition.
First responders arrived within minutes and the Anne Arundel County Public Schools Superintendent, Dr. Mark Befell, said the school followed its lockdown procedures “to a tee.”
Anne Arundel County Police Chief Amal Awad said they weren’t sure if it was a "suspect, or suspects" they were looking for, but said it was “more than likely” another student.
“As you can imagine, this was a traumatic incident so there appear to be many people who either witnessed or were present. We’re running those leads down now,” Chief Awad told reporters at an afternoon press conference.
One father we talked to in the pick-up line said he panicked when he found out what happened. Fortunately, he was able to keep in touch with his daughter throughout the day via text.
"Once I heard from her, and she said she was safe, I felt better, but I still wanted to get up here as quick as I could,” he told WMAR-2 News. "She said she knew the guy who got hurt. She knew the student who got, I guess stabbed. She knows him, so she was just worried about him.”
He said receiving that phone call or text is “every parent’s worst nightmare.”
“But they gotta go to school. They gotta live their life, and you can’t live your life in fear. But this is something that’s always in the back of your mind when you drop your kid off at school every morning," Watts said.
Anne Arundel County Schools do not have weapons detections systems but Superintendent Dr. Bedell said he had just recently announced as part of his 2026 budget request that the school system plans to launch a pilot program with that technology at two yet-to-be-determined schools.
Army CID, Fort Meade Police, and DES are on the scene as the investigation continues.
Meade High School is on lockdown “until further notice” after a 17 year old boy was stabbed - found by the school resource officer in a hallway.
— Elizabeth Worthington (@ElizWorthNews) January 23, 2025
*No suspect is in custody and no weapons have been recovered.*
Police say: please do not go to the school to pick up your students. pic.twitter.com/fR0EBOwgY2
*This is a developing story and will be updated when more information becomes available.*