Carolyn Gilbert, a family and consumer sciences teacher of
Bloomingdale suffered multiple non-life-threatening wounds in the neck and once
near the eye when stabbed by a 16-year-old male student Friday morning, said
Elgin Police Lt. Cecil Smith, according to the Chicago Tribune.
She was initially treated at
“We’re ensure right now if the (blindness) is temporary or
permanent,” Elgin Area School District U-46’s Chief communications officer Tony
Sanders said for the Chicago Daily Herald.
The event happened in a classroom about 11 a.m., 15 minutes
after students had been dismissed on the last day of final exams. There were no
witnesses, but another teacher intervened and held the student until police
arrived, officials said, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Officials at Elgin-based
As for the boy, he has been charged with aggravated battery
with a weapon and aggravated battery to a person known to be a teacher and is
currently held at the
.