PHOENIX ( AZFamily /Gray News) — A student has died after a classroom fight escalated into a stabbing at a Phoenix high school late Tuesday morning.

“We are heartbroken by this senseless tragedy today at Maryvale High School,” Phoenix Union High School District Superintendent Thea Andrade said.

According to police, the fight involved two boys at the high school on 59th Avenue south of Indian School Road shortly before 11 a.m.

Classmates said it involved freshmen and scissors were used.

Both students were taken to the hospital, where one of them died. The other was not seriously hurt.

Police said after the fight, staff was told a school resource officer detained the suspect.

“The on-campus school safety officer responded immediately, rendered aid to the student and did his job well,

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