A Missouri lady is in vital situation and the teenager accused of sending her to the hospital after slamming her head into the pavement close to their highschool has been arrested.
Officers with the St. Louis County Police Division responded to a combat in progress at an intersection close to Hazelwood East Excessive College on Friday.
Responding officers discovered a juvenile feminine struggling a “extreme head harm.” The lady was transported to an space hospital the place she stays in “vital situation,” St. Louis County police instructed Fox Information Digital on Sunday.
Police arrested a 15-year-old feminine suspect on Saturday. She’s presently being held by St. Louis County Household Court docket on assault prices.
Video footage of the incident exhibits a combat breaking out amongst a bunch of younger individuals. One of many ladies, who’s Black, pulls one other one, who seems to be White, to the bottom earlier than wailing on her and slamming her cranium into the pavement. The sufferer may be seen mendacity on the bottom in shock because the bedlam continues round her.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to the Hazelwood College District for remark. The district instructed FOX 2 in an announcement: “It’s a tragedy anytime kids are damage.”
“Bullying and preventing locally is a matter for which all of us must take possession and work in direction of a decision for the sake of our youngsters. The Hazelwood College District affords our sincerest condolences to everybody concerned, and can supply further emotional assist from our assist and disaster staff to these in want,” HSD mentioned in an announcement.
“We sit up for persevering with to associate with our group for the sake of our youngsters. Please be form and respectful of the households concerned throughout this troublesome time and pledge to assist work towards the betterment of our whole group.”
The investigation is ongoing. Anybody with data ought to name the St. Louis County Police Division at 636-529-8210.
