A western Pennsylvania man was sentenced on Monday to up to 60 years in prison for stabbing 20 fellow students and a security guard with two kitchen knives in a high school rampage in 2014.
Alex Hribal, now 20, was 16 years old at the time of the attack at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, 18 miles east of Pittsburgh. He suffered from pre-schizophrenia symptoms, according to court documents.
“I feel horrible about everything,” Hribal said at the sentencing in Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court, Reuters reported. “There’s no words I can use, and nothing I can say, to make it all better. There’s nothing I can say to fix it,” he said.
Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Feliciani sentenced Hribal to 23-1/2 to 60 years behind bars and ordered him to pay $269,000 in restitution.
“Each of the victims was consulted. They wanted 30-60 years,” Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck said.
Hribal pleaded guilty in October to 21 counts each of attempted homicide and aggravated assault.
“I’m sorry, Alex,” she also testified, according to Triblive. “You just couldn’t deal with the illness, I’m sorry.”
In the attack, he used a pair of eight-inch kitchen knives and went after students in hallways before classes started in April 2014. Four were critically wounded.
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