OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) – An Oshkosh West High School student accused of stabbing the school resource officer has been formally charged as an adult.
One count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide has been filed against 16-year-old Grant Fuhrman.
He appeared in Winnebago County Court on Wednesday.
“It can’t be understated in the culture and the nature of how things are today, the seriousness of this. The impact on the community, the school, the students, on Officer Wissink – the gravity is extraordinarily significant,” says Court Commissioner Bryan Keberlein.
According to the criminal complaint, Fuhrman confronted Officer Michael Wissink in his office at the school. It continues to say Fuhrman asked Wissink to look up information on his past BB gun incident. Wissink started to search with Fuhrman standing behind him. That’s when Wissink reports he “felt a blow and his ‘head got rocked.”
Wissink tells investigators he was hit several times before realizing that Fuhrman was stabbing him with a fork-like object. The complaint notes that Wissink tried to deploy his Taser but was unable to get to it so he fired his gun twice. Wissink said he believed he hit Fuhrman once and hit his own left forearm with the other shot, the complaint says.
Fuhrman admitted to investigators that he had “bad thoughts” the night prior to the stabbing. The complaint says he thought about wanting to take Officer Wissink’s gun and hold it and started making a plan on how to get it. He continued on to say he didn’t want Wissink to die and wasn’t sure what he was going to do if he got the gun.
Fuhrman also told investigators that he grabbed a metal grilling fork from home and hid it in the waistband of his pants when he went to school.
The complaint says several students also received a message from Fuhrman on Snapchat around 1 a.m. that morning saying “Today’s the day.”
That incident led to a lockdown, then evacuation of Oshkosh West High School. Nearby schools were also locked down.
Both of them were treated at hospitals for non-life threatening injuries. Fuhrman was taken to the Winnebago County Jail upon his release from the hospital. Wissink was released from ThedaCare Medical Center in Neenah on Monday.
