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PHOENIX - Debra Boyer rushed to Maryvale High School after getting a tip on a neighborhood safety app that something was happening on Tuesday, Aug. 19 .

Her grandson is a junior at the school, and she joined other concerned parents waiting at the gates to make sure their loved ones were safe.

"It's scary because it seems like, you know, nobody really did anything at the time," Boyer said.

Boyer saw paramedics performing CPR on a student as he was loaded into an ambulance. She later learned the victim was 16-year-old Michael Montoya II.

"The paramedics were yelling, 'go, go, we gotta go.' They were doing compressions on him, which was sad," Boyer said.

Police say Montoya was attacked in a classroom by another male classmate armed with a folding pocketknife. The sus

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