Student At Columbine High Arrested After Hammer Attack

LITTLETON, Colo. (CBS4) - A 14-year-old student who allegedly attacked two other students at Columbine High School with a hammer has been arrested.

Officials with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department said the two victims were hospitalized, but their injuries were described as minor.

The female student, a freshman, tentatively faces charges of first-degree assault. She was taken to Mountain View Youth Detention Center.

Authorities told CBS4 the attack took place at the school on Monday and that the victims were Aaron Flowers, 16, and a 15-year-old female.

Flowers told CBS4 the incident began as a fight between two girls in a hallway. He said the suspect took a hammer out of her backpack and started to swing it at the older girl. Flowers said he stepped into help because the 15-year-old is his friend. He ended up getting hit in the ribs and the hand before he was able to stop the fight.

"We were walking to the bathroom; I had to watch my hands, and this girl came up with a hammer and started swinging and I heard her screaming … I turned around and she got hit in the head and I had stepped in front of her and I got hit in my hand and I took the hammer from her. That's when the cops came up.

"She was just swinging back and forth. It wasn't just a regular swing; it was just back and forth, and she was going for the face."

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department said there was a school resource officer at the school who able to get there within a minute to arrest the suspect.

The suspect is expected to remain at the detention center overnight. She faces felony assault charges. She's expected in court Tuesday morning.

The Jefferson County School District released a statement saying they will conduct their own investigation.