A female Texarkana Independent School District student stabbed on a bus early today was released from a local hospital into her parents' care, an official said.
Meanwhile, a fellow female student has been arrested on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and is being held in a juvenile detention center.
The school bus was at West 22nd and Hazel streets about 7:50 a.m. Thursday as three female high school students got into a fight "fairly quickly upon entering the bus," TISD executive director of public relations Tina Veal-Gooch said.
The victim was stabbed five to eight times with a standard pocket knife while riding Bus 601, which was substituting for Bus 587's routes.
Social media posts are apparently what led to the stabbing.
"It appears that the incident began via Facebook social posts last night and continued into the morning," Veal-Gooch wrote in a update just after noon on Thursday.
The victim was immediately taken to CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System after the incident.
Texas High School Principal Brad Bailey was with the victim's family most of Thursday morning, Veal-Gooch said.
The suspect was taken into custody by TISD Police Department.
The third female student was questioned and released.
About 25 students were removed and taken by another bus to TISD's bus department area and questioned about the incident, Veal-Gooch said.
Bailey contacted all the students' parents so the students could go home for the day based on the circumstances.
According to TISD's Student Code of Conduct, pocket knives are on the list of items prohibited on campus and in buses.