'Horrifying and terrifying': Victims of knife attack at Halifax-area school deliver impact statements
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Victims of a stabbing at a high school in Bedford, N.S., in March 2023 took the witness stand Tuesday and delivered their emotional victim impact statements.
Wayne Rodgers describes the morning of March, 20, 2023 as the most “horrifying and terrifying moment” of his life – a moment he thought would be his last.
Rodgers, the acting vice-principal at Charles P. Allen High School in Bedford, N.S., was attacked that morning and stabbed multiple times by a student who was called into his office for disciplinary reasons.
An educational assistant, Angela Light, was also attacked and stabbed in the back when she tried to intervene.
Both Rodgers and Light survived the knife attack and were in court Tuesday morning. They took the witness stand and delivered their emotional victim impact statements.
“I may never know why the offender caused me such grievous harm that morning,” said Rodgers, who retired from teaching in 2020 and moved to Nova Scotia with his family from Newfoundland.
Rodgers said he missed the school environment and working with young adults in the high school setting, so he took a temporary vice-principal job at Halifax West High School before settling in at Charles P. Allen High School.
Rodgers was one of seven people who delivered impact statements related to the stabbing incident.
