ALEXANDRIA

Alexandria High School Student Fatally Stabbed During Fight at Bradlee Shopping Center

Thirty to 50 people were involved in the fight at the Northern Virginia shopping center near Alexandria City High School, police say

By Gina Cook and Drew Wilder, News4 Northern Virginia Reporter • Published 1 hour ago • Updated 28 mins ago

A high school student in Alexandria, Virginia, has died after someone stabbed him during a fight involving 30 to 50 people at the Bradlee Shopping Center Tuesday afternoon, police say. ... Officers found the 18-year-old victim when they arrived to the McDonald's parking lot at the shopping center to break up the fight about 12:30 p.m., police said. ... Medics took the victim, a student at Alexandria City High School, to a hospital, where he died a short time later, police said.

Police tape blocked off the McDonald's parking lot, where shoes and other items littered the ground after the fight. ... Investigators are combing through surveillance video and interviewing witnesses to the fight, police said.

Alexandria City High School put its King Street and Minnie Howard campuses on a "secure the building" status due to the stabbing and school officials said they would stagger afternoon dismissal so that students would leave in smaller groups led by staff.

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The shopping center on King Street is a popular lunch spot for students from the high school. ... Last September, a teen was shot near the same McDonald's.

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BREAKING: Police say one teenager, a student at Alexandria City High School, was killed in the fight outside McDonald's this afternoon

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