Foss High School Stabbing: 6 Hospitalized in Tacoma, Washington

News ArticlePublishedApr 30, 2026 at 05:30 PM EDTupdatedApr 30, 2026 at 06:49 PM EDTBy Peter Aitken and Dan GoodingThe Tacoma Police Department has one suspect in custody after six people were taken to hospital following a stabbing at Foss High School in Tacoma, Washington, according to local reports. Tacoma Fire on Thursday at 1:38 p.m. local time responded to a call of a possible stabbing at Foss High School. Initial reports said five people, but Tacoma Fire told Newsweek that a sixth person was also taken with "minor injuries," which Public Information Officer (PIO) Shelby Boyd of the Tacoma Police Department later confirmed was the suspect. Four of the victims were transported in critical condition, and two had non-life-threatening injuries, including the suspect. ...Boyd during a press conference confirmed the victims as four students and one security guard, the last of whom only had minor injuries, and could not say if the injuries were all due to lacerations. Boyd could not say exactly where the incident took place, nor what the relation between the victims and suspect was, although she confirmed the suspect was a student at Foss High School. The school has two security guards at the school, one