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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)
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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.

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