Jaguars player stabbed after football game

Windsor High School football player Felipe Galvan, 17, was
injured by a knife-wielding assailant last Friday evening following
the Jaguars football game at Casa Grande High School. The game,
which Casa Grande won, did not seem to be a factor in the
attack.
The attacker, Joshua Allan Charney, 19, became involved in an
argument with Thomas Galvan, Felipe’s father, while the football
players were still in the locker room after the game. According to
the report from the Petaluma Police Department, the elder Galvan
challenged Charney’s use of foul language in front of a 10-year-old
girl. When he emerged from the locker room, Felipe also became
involved in the altercation.
According to the police report, the argument turned physical
between the two young men, and Charney pulled a knife, stabbing
Felipe in the stomach and cutting his left arm. At that point
Thomas Galvan intervened, and was also cut by Charney on the
ear.
After the attack, Charney fled the scene, but witnesses
identified him to police. Thomas Galvan was treated at the
hospital, receiving several stitches, and was released. Felipe
Galvan was hospitalized with wounds that are “serious but not life
threatening.”
Charney voluntarily turned himself in on Saturday, was arrested
by police and is being held in the County Jail on $30,000 bail.
WHS Principal Jeff Harding said he “couldn’t even speculate” on
what motivated Charney’s attack, but he said it did not appear to
have anything to do with a school rivalry, nor did it appear to be
gang-related.
Harding said that early in the week an announcement was made to
WHS students about the attack. “Our biggest concern is to squelch
misinformation,” said Harding. “We are interested in maintaining
good relations with Casa.”
Harding said the Casa Grande principal sent his regrets that
such a thing would happen on his campus. Harding also said that he
and the captain of the Jaguars football team had spoken about the
incident, and the player recognized that “this is just an
unfortunate, isolated incident.”
Harding said Galvan’s most serious injury was to his arm, which
will require micro surgery to reattach severed tendons.