Man charged in stabbing of fellow student off school property in Pickering

A police cruiser parked at the scene of a stabbing near Liverpool Road and Finch Avenue in Pickering on Wednesday, April 15, 2026.

A 20-year-old man has been charged after a fight off school property in Pickering ended in a stabbing that left a fellow student with serious injuries on Wednesday.

Durham police said an assist ambulance call came in at 11:15 a.m. at Pine Ridge Secondary School.

A student was initially reported to have taken a fall, but when paramedics arrived and learned that the student had been assaulted with a weapon, they said they called police.

Officers attended the school and discovered two students were involved in an altercation off school property, police said.

During the altercation, one student demanded the other hand over his personal property. When the victim refused, the suspect allegedly brandished an edged weapon and stabbed him.

The victim, a youth, was shortly taken to a Toronto-area trauma centre with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Meanwhile, officers located the suspect at the school and arrested him without incident.

In a news release on Thursday, police identified the suspect as 20-year-old Zaidan Ibrahim Mohamed Abkar of Pickering.

He has been charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, assault, possession of weapon dangerous, robbery and failure to comply with a probation order.