NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - A teen accused of stabbing a student on the campus of North Miami Beach Senior High School has surrendered to police.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools officials confirmed 16-year-old Dadley Romain turned himself in Friday.
According to Miami-Dade Schools Police, Romain brought a black-handled steak knife to school.
During lunch on Thursday, police said, he saw the victim standing by the bleachers near the baseball field and got into a heated argument with him.
Investigators said Romain took the knife out of his backpack and stabbed the victim once in the upper rib cage.
“Respond to North Miami Beach Senior … it’s going to be in reference to a juvenile with a stab wound to the rib area,” said a dispatcher on radio transmissions, Thursday.
The victim was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center once fire rescue arrived at the scene.
On Friday morning, the school’s principal, Randy Milliken, made the announcement to students.
“The subject from yesterday’s incident is in custody, and that’s all I can really tell you. There’s an open police investigation, but the subject is in custody,” said Milliken.
Although there was no danger to students, some chose to stay home following the violent altercation.
“The halls were pretty empty,” said one female student who chose to remain anonymous. “Usually when I walk here, it’s like a bunch of kids going to school, but there really wasn’t. I was like, ‘It’s empty.'”
The brawl forced the school into a lockdown while police searched for the culprit.
According to the police report, Romain turned himself in at the North Miami Beach Police Department at around 11:45 p.m. on Thursday, saying that “he did something bad at school.”
Romain admitted to going into his mother’s kitchen, taking the steak knife and bringing it to school on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. He faces charges of attempted murder, aggravated battery with great bodily harm, exhibiting a weapon on school property.”
7News on Friday spoke with Romain’s mother at her North Miami Beach home, who said her son was retaliating after years of being bullied.
“Let me tell you, when someone get injured and other people’s looking for you, this is a gang,” she said.
She said that her son has been bullied for years and that her son told her about the incidents.
“Of course! Last year, they break his phone, sometimes stolen,” she said, “and this morning, I went to the court, his face was like a lot of scratches like he was beaten in the face.”
But, according to the police report, Romain was in communication with his mother all week prior to this incident.
Romain also said that he saw the school resource officer every day and had multiple opportunities to tell an adult or the police about any issues or problems he was having with anyone at the school, but chose not to tell anyone.
The injured student remains in the hospital in stable condition and is expected to make a full recovery.
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