Spring High School stabbing  On September 4, 2013, one student was killed and three others were wounded in a stabbing attack at Spring High School in Spring, Texas, United States. A 17-year-old student, identified as Luis Alonzo Alfaro, was arrested and charged for the murder. In September 2014, Alfaro was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years of prison. The stabbing raised issues of gang and racial tensions among the Spring High School community and local community leaders. The stabbings took place within a context of ethnicity-related tensions between rival gangs within the student body at Spring High where, in the decade before this brawl, the white population fell from 65 percent to 29 percent. This is largely to the influx of black families from Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana relocating to the Houston area and Spring High taking many students into their school. The black population increased from about 15 percent to 30 percent, the Hispanic population has grown to 36 percent within that time, and students in the high school socialized within ethnic boundaries. On the morning of the 2013 stabbings, the fighting broke out in a school corridor between black students calling their group "Drama" and Hispanic students chanting "Brown Pride". At 7:10 a.m., in the Spring High School hallways, a physical altercation between several students escalated after Alfaro bumped his shoulder against 17-year-old Joshua Broussard, a junior at the school. During the fight, Alfaro was stated to have produced a knife and fatally stabbed Broussard to death. Three other students were also injured. Alfaro attempted to flee, but he was arrested at the school and was taken into custody after he allegedly confessed to the crime. Two other students were also taken into custody for questioning, but later released. After the incident, the school was placed on lock-down. Students were dismissed from the school at around noontime. The district gave automated phone and e-mail messages to the parents of students approximately three hours after the stabbings occurred. Spring Independent School District Superintendent Ralph Draper said in a statement, "Every parent sends their child to school believing school should be one of those safe haven places. This is what we spend our nights and days working toward and what I lose sleep over. In my nearly 30-year career, this is the one thing you pray never to experience." Police suspected that the stabbing was gang-related. The sole fatality was Joshua Broussard, who died at the scene after being stabbed multiple times in the abdomen.