LA School Stabbing News: 13-Year-Old Arrested After Teen Killed Outside David Wark Griffith Junior High

Homicide detectives from Los Angeles Country Sheriff have arrested a 13-year-old suspect in the death of a student in East Los Angeles.

The Hispanic juvenile was arrested at about 1:30 a.m. on Jan. 24 at his home in Los Angeles and was taken to the East Los Angeles Sheriff's station and booked for murder.

The arrest was made in connection with the stabbing of 14-year-old Steven Cruz in front of David Wark Griffith Junior High School in Los Angeles, authorities said.

Cruz was stabbed with a sharp object in the afternoon of Jan. 23. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

"The weapon was not located," according to Deputy Guillermina Saldaña of the LA County Sheriff's Department.

Cruz's girlfriend and best friends said Cruz was on his way home when he stopped by the school to see his friends. The suspect confronted Cruz and asked him where he was from and then stabbed him.

The stabbing happened just as David Wark Griffith Junior High School was letting out students. Reports said the school implemented a lock down for several hours for about 100 students and staff who were still in the campus as the police secured the area.

Parents rushed near the school for information about their kids who were still inside the campus.

Lt. Holly Francisco of the Sheriff's Department said it was an isolated incident. "The investigators are just doing interviews now, but we don't have any indication that there was a fight prior to the stabbing," Francisco said.

Edith Torres waited until night to pick up her daughter at the school. She told LA Times that her nephew, a student of the school, told her that there was a stabbing at the school. Her daughter called her from the school to tell her she was fine.