72°F
weather icon Mostly Cloudy
Las Vegas, NV
Nation and World

Texas school slaying may have been started by a bump

A knife is collected for evidence outside Spring High School Wednesday in Spring, Texas. At least one person was been killed and others injured in an altercation at the high school in suburban Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
A preliminary court hearing is scheduled Friday, in Houston, for Luis Alonzo Alfaro. The Spring High School student is charged with murder in a knife attack Wedneat the school, located in Spring, Texas. (AP Photo/Harris County Sheriff's Office)
Emergency personnel remove a person from the school after at least one person was killed and others were injured during an altercation inside Spring High School on Wednesday in Spring, Texas. (AP Photo/The Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran )
Parents, Eunice Pacheco, right, and LaKesia Brent wait for news about their children outside Spring High School on Wednesday in Spring, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
More Stories
FILE - Security guards stand outside the Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building at 26 Federal ...
Federal officials discipline ICE officer for shoving woman in New York
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a map while speaking at the 80th session of ...
Netanyahu says Israel won’t ‘buckle’ in defiant UN speech
Las Vegas gunman in NYC office shooting had CTE, medical examiner rules
The Dragon Bravo Fire burns on the Grand Canyon's North Rim Saturday, July 19, 2025. (Joe Rondo ...
Parts of Grand Canyon’s North Rim opening soon after wildfire — PHOTOS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
September 5, 2013 - 2:30 pm
 

HOUSTON — A 17-year-old charged in the fatal stabbing of a fellow Houston-area student has told investigators the altercation began when he bumped a different youth in the school cafeteria.

But Harris County Sheriff’s Office investigators said Thursday that gang rivalry appears to be the motive in the slaying at Spring High School in Spring.

Luis Alonzo Alfaro was being held on a murder charge in Wednesday morning’s killing of 17-year-old Joshua Devon Broussard.

Alfaro made a court appearance early Thursday where details of his interview with detectives were disclosed. Alfaro, who’s jailed on $150,000 bond, also asked for a court-appointed attorney. He has another court appearance set for Friday.

Classes have been canceled at Spring High School, about 20 miles north of Houston, until Monday.

MOST READ
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.
THE LATEST
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a map while speaking at the 80th session of ...
Netanyahu says Israel won’t ‘buckle’ in defiant UN speech
By Jennifer Peltz, Adam Geller and Farnoush Amiri Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders on Friday that his nation “must finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza.

Former FBI director James Comey is sworn via videoconference before testifying during a Senate ...
Ex-FBI director Comey indicted in connection with Russia probe
By Eric Tucker and Alanna Durkin Richer Associated Press

Former FBI Director James Comey was charged with making a false statement and obstruction days after President Donald Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to prosecute him.

Shoppers at the Walden Galleria in Buffalo, NY, stop by the Starbucks kiosk on Saturday, Nov. 3 ...
Starbucks to close hundreds of stores as part of turnaround plan
By Dee-Ann Durbin The Associated Press

Starbucks said Thursday it’s closing hundreds of U.S. and Canadian stores and laying off 900 nonretail employees as it focuses more of its resources on a turnaround.

MORE STORIES