A plethora of unanswered questions surrounds the stabbing at Maryvale High School that left one student dead and another student behind bars, with police statements and court documents offering limited details as to what happened.

Police officers responded to the west Phoenix school, near 59th Avenue and Osborn Road, at about 10:54 a.m. Aug. 19 after receiving a call about a stabbing and found a boy with multiple stab wounds, court documents said.

The boy was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at noon, court documents said. Police later identified the boy as 16-year-old Michael Montoya II.

Police and school security detained Chris Daniel Aguilar, 16, as teachers and students told police they saw him repeatedly stab Montoya before fleeing the classroom, accord

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