Two students and a teacher were seriously injured in an alleged stabbing at a middle school in Missouri, police said.

Warrenton police responded to an emergency call at Black Hawk Middle School on Thursday after a juvenile student allegedly stabbed two students and a teacher during school hours.

First responders arrived at about 8 a.m., but authorities said the suspect had already left the school.

Police placed the school under lockdown and located the juvenile suspect soon after launching their investigation.

The suspect was taken into custody, while the three injured victims were transported to a hospital for treatment, officials said.

“One of the injured individuals was flown from the scene, while the other injured persons were provided with medical attention,” police said.

Police confirmed that one student was flown by medical helicopter in serious condition. The teacher was taken to the hospital by ambulance.

“All victims are in stable condition. There is no continued threat to the community,” police said.

A juvenile student allegedly stabbed two students and a teacher during school hours at Black Hawk Middle School in Missouri

First responders arrived at the school at about 8 a.m., but the suspect had already fled, authorities said

Police placed the school under lockdown and located the juvenile suspect shortly after beginning their investigation

Authorities said they would release more information when it becomes appropriate.

The department added that it would not compromise the investigation or the privacy of those involved.

“The safety of our students, teachers, and school personnel is of paramount importance,” police said.

“We are working closely with school administrators and other emergency response agencies to ensure the safety of everyone involved and to assist with the ongoing investigation,” the department added.

Officials said they understood that an incident of this nature would cause fear and concern in the community, but urged the public not to jump to conclusions.

“We ask the public to avoid speculation and to respect the privacy of the victims and their families as they deal with this difficult situation,” police said.

Keegan Aubuchon, a student at the middle school, told First Alert 4 that he heard the lockdown announcement while he was in a classroom with friends.

The sixth grader said the stabbing took place immediately outside his classroom.

Aubuchon said he and his classmates turned off the lights and locked the door.

They then took out their phones to alert their parents, he said.

“We just sat there quietly and heard screaming,” he said.

“I just wanted all my friends to be OK and everyone else to be OK.”

It remains unclear what preceded the incident.

Parents rushed to the school after being alerted about the incident. One parent said the stabbing could have been prevented

Hundreds of parents gathered outside the school to reunite with their children after receiving an alert about the incident.

James Besselman, whose sixth-grade child attends the school, said bullying was a significant problem there.

“I don’t know what brought on this situation today, but I told them in the principal’s office that I don’t want my son to be a situation of, ‘What could we have done differently?’” he told the outlet.

“I don’t know if there was bullying involved, what happened, or what provoked this. However, somebody knew something. Somebody could have done something to prevent this,” Besselman added.

The teacher and the other student were released from the hospital at 1:50 p.m., the outlet reported.

Four people were taken to hospitals after an emergency room doctor opened fire inside a gym at his luxury Washington, DC, apartment complex Thursday morning, killing the building manager before later taking his own life.

Dr. Matt Lambert, 55, shot building manager James Stuart, 46, inside a Vida gym in the upscale Logan Circle neighborhood, authorities said.

Lambert then returned to his seventh-floor penthouse, valued at $1.1 million, stepped onto his private patio and began firing at people below, according to police.

Within five minutes of Stuart being shot, Lambert wounded four additional people — two women and two men — Interim Police Chief Jeffery Carroll told reporters Thursday.

The injured victims are believed to include several construction workers at a job site across the street, along with another person who was near the gym’s lobby or an alley, Carroll said.

One woman suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to George Washington University Hospital, a source told NBC News 4.

A second woman was shot in the arm and transported to Howard University Hospital with two other people who sustained non-life-threatening injuries, the station reported, citing the source.

The conditions and identities of the four wounded victims remained unknown late Thursday night.

After the shooting, Lambert barricaded himself inside his apartment for nearly an hour as police faced a tense standoff. During the incident, he fired twice at officers stationed outside his door, police said.

Police said Lambert also damaged the gas line connected to his fireplace and started a fire. The sprinkler system was activated and put it out.

While negotiators worked to resolve the standoff, Lambert reportedly launched into a tirade about his homeowners’ association. He had been involved in a yearslong legal dispute with the association over black mold, police said.

Lambert eventually shot himself and died.

Police found three weapons inside the apartment: a handgun, a shotgun and a rifle.

The Metropolitan Police Department did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

Microsoft is continuing to battle a major outage affecting several of its services, including Outlook, after acknowledging that restoration efforts were “not taking as expected.”

Roughly 130,000 users in the United States reported problems with Outlook shortly after 1 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, according to Downdetector.

Although the number of fresh reports has declined, tens of thousands of users around the world—or potentially more—were still unable to access their inboxes or send messages.

Microsoft’s subscription software suite is used by more than 430 million people, although the company has not disclosed how many customers were directly affected by the disruption.

Users also reported trouble with Microsoft Teams, the Copilot AI assistant and several other Microsoft 365 products.

On Thursday night, Microsoft said it was exploring “alternate workstreams” to increase capacity and address “sustained traffic management imbalances” behind the continuing disruption.

Earlier in the day, the company said infrastructure facing an “elevated load across multiple regions” was probably contributing to the connectivity failures.

Charles Lamanna, a Microsoft executive vice president, wrote Thursday night on X: “For now I can confirm that there is no indication this is the result of malicious or cyber activity.”

Microsoft said Thursday night that its efforts to restore services after the widespread outage were “not taking as expected”

Thousands of users worldwide were unable to access Outlook and other Microsoft services for much of the day

Microsoft previously said several servers had become “unexpectedly unavailable” after failing during automated health checks.

The company did not immediately explain what had caused the failures.

Microsoft later said it was testing a repair and deploying an alternative process to return the affected servers to service.

“We’re aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact,” the company’s 365 Status account wrote on X.

Around noon, Microsoft posted that “mitigative actions” had “successfully restored service health and functionality” across North America.

However, users continued to report problems, saying the outage remained active during the middle of the working day for many customers.

Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke also said Microsoft had told him it did not believe a cyberattack was responsible, according to Reuters.

Microsoft said earlier Thursday that infrastructure under “elevated load across multiple regions” was likely contributing to the extensive outage

OpenAI said the Microsoft disruption caused ChatGPT to experience “degraded performance” on Thursday

The Microsoft disruption also spilled over to other technology platforms.

OpenAI said Thursday afternoon that it was investigating a problem with Microsoft connectors, warning that new connections could fail and tools might not operate properly.

OpenAI also reported that ChatGPT was operating with “degraded performance.”

Anthropic, another major AI company, said its users were encountering problems linked to the Microsoft 365 service incident.

According to Anthropic, mail, calendar and search features within its Microsoft 365 connector were failing for most requests.

The outage also disrupted jail operations in parts of the United States. The Arapahoe Sheriff’s Office in Colorado said Thursday evening on X that it could not receive the email alerts required to process online bond payments.

People seeking immediate release on bond were therefore instructed to complete the process in person at the jail.

The New York City Department of Investigation said the outage had also led to the suspension of evictions scheduled for Friday.

Microsoft has said that more than 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies use Copilot, its artificial intelligence assistant.

More than 430 million people use Microsoft’s subscription services (pictured: the company’s campus in Redmond, Washington)

The outage occurred in the same week Microsoft issued a security update for an unrelated vulnerability that could allow hackers to steal sign-in details.

Attackers could use that information to impersonate victims and potentially gain access to personal accounts or workplace systems.

Microsoft released a fix on November 10 as part of its regular security updates, but computers remain exposed until the patch is installed.

To install the update, users should open an Office program such as Word, select File, then Account, and choose Update Options followed by Update Now.

In classic Outlook, the account section may instead be labeled Office Account.

The vulnerability has already been exploited in real-world attacks.

Until the update is applied, users should avoid opening unexpected attachments or message files, even when they appear to have been sent by someone they know.

PETA drew widespread condemnation Thursday after invoking a deadly shooting in Washington, DC, in a protest against Mallard restaurant’s planned foie gras dinner.

“An active shooting has been down the block from Mallard restaurant in DC, which is planning a foie gras dinner tonight,” the animal-rights group wrote on X. The post included a photo of police blocking off a street near the gym where Dr. Matt Lambert allegedly shot five people, killing one.

After saying that PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk was “on scene,” the organization questioned whether the restaurant would “show its neighbors the consideration it’s refused to show ducks.”

The post was swiftly criticized across social media, with users calling it callous and inappropriate given the unfolding tragedy.

“You should be so ashamed of this tweet,” celebrity chef Jose Andres wrote on X. “People dead and injured and you tweet this?”

Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich shared PETA’s message with the caption, “*picks up jaw off the floor*”

“My gosh, read the room,” another stunned X user wrote. “It’s food. Irrelevant to today’s tragedy.”

“There is something deeply wrong with this organization,” journalist Yashar Ali said in response.

In a subsequent statement, PETA said it had deleted the original post but did not apologize for publishing it.

“The shooting this morning in DC was in PETA’s neighborhood, and these were our neighbors who were impacted. We canceled a protest scheduled today in front of Mallard restaurant over its despicable sale of foie gras out of respect for the victims of the shooting,” the group said. “In our tweet, we were calling on the restaurant to help eliminate violence by removing the cruel item from its menu.”

“We took down our tweet because people who support and take part in the violent killing of ducks and geese for foie gras, like Chef Jose Andres, were twisting it,” PETA continued. “Yet we encourage everyone to remember that it is possible to care about more than one thing at a time and to respect all life.”

Lambert allegedly shot his building manager, James Stuart, inside a Vida Fitness gym Thursday morning during a dispute over mold. He then fired at four other people from the balcony of his apartment.

After an hour-long standoff with police, Lambert killed himself inside his penthouse.