LYNN, MASS. (WHDH) - Police have made an arrest in a stabbing on Wednesday outside a Lynn high school that left a teenager injured.

Johel Ramirez Chavez, 18, is charged with armed assault to murder. He’s accused of stabbing a 16-year-old boy near the basketball court by English High School.

The victim was taken to a Boston hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Chavez is being held behind bars pending a dangerousness hearing on Dec. 21.

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