Excessive faculties was safer again within the day. One thing has modified.
Prosecutors say a excessive schooler in North Carolina is being charged as an grownup for allegedly attacking two separate lecturers on faculty grounds.
Aquavis Hickman, 17, a pupil at Parkland Excessive College in Winston-Salem, was indicted on assault and kidnapping prices final week and charged as a grownup within the two horrific assaults, together with an April 15 assault the place he slapped a feminine trainer twice, Fox affiliate WGHP-TV Information reported.
“Our message to our group is easy,” Forsyth County District Legal professional Jim O’Neill advised the outlet. “We stand with lecturers. We are going to struggle to guard these lecturers. And when you lay a hand on a trainer and assault a trainer, you’ll be able to anticipate that the punishment can be swift and extreme.
“Promise made,” O’Neill stated as he introduced the indictment Thursday. “Promise stored.”
Hickman was charged with kidnapping and misdemeanor riot within the first incident on Feb. 1, though prosecutors stated he was not the only real attacker.
The substitute trainer, Larry Edwards, stated he was “appalled” after being pushed within the hallway by a number of college students, together with Hickman.
“I walked as much as the desk to get my cellphone to name the workplace and he mockingly walked behind me, and I occurred to show round and see him and the scholars began laughing,” Edwards stated in a report final week. “The subsequent factor I do know he had taken his hand and smushed my head and everyone began laughing and he ran out.”
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It was revealed final month that the aggressive teenager smacked the feminine trainer twice, with video of the assault later going viral – although cops didn’t launch it.
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“That video went viral nationwide and it put us on the map in a adverse method,” Winston-Salem Police Chief William Penn advised the outlet. “I’m so glad in the present day that the remainder of the nation may also hear that we don’t tolerate that in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County.”
A grand jury voted final week to indict the teenager, transferring the case from juvenile courtroom to Superior Court docket.
Officers from the district declined to touch upon the case or Hickman’s arrest.
