Police in Edgewater are investigating after roughly 20 students were stuck by lancets at Lumberg Elementary School on Thursday.
None of the students were significantly injured, police said.
Officers responded to the school at about 3:45 p.m. to investigate the incident involving 11- and 12-year-old boys and girls, all of them 5th grade students.
Investigators found an 11-year-old girl had brought the lancets — small, sharp needles normally used in a doctors’s office to prick a patient and obtain a blood sample — into school from home and then to a classroom.
“At this point in the investigation, there is no evidence that force was used against the students to inflict the lancet pricks,” police said. “The lancets are now in the custody of the Edgewater Police Department.”
Police say they don’t believe the lancets were contaminated, but that they are continuing to investigate. Charges are not pending against the 11-year-old girl.
“However, the investigation is continuing into how the student obtained the lancets,” police said.
Parents were notified of the lancet situation by the Jefferson County School District.
“Parents of children who were believed to have been affected were notified in person by school staff and encouraged to seek medical advice,” the district said.
The district said the girl brought “several” lancets into the school, three of which were recovered.
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