{"id":144118,"date":"2026-03-20T22:08:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144118\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:08:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:08:29","slug":"man-arrested-in-south-carolina-for-attack-on-crossing-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144118\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in South Carolina for attack on crossing guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tU.S. Marshals have announced the arrest of Rashiem Russell, a 29-year-old from West Philadelphia, in connection with an attack on a crossing guard outside an elementary school in Darby Borough, Pennsylvania.Russell was taken into custody in Darlington, South Carolina, and is awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania.Police believe he had a close family member in that area.According to the Darby Borough Police Department, the attack happened around 3:50 p.m. Monday near South Sixth and Walnut streets outside Walnut Street Elementary School.&#8221;A crossing guard, who works daily to keep our children and neighbors safe, was assaulted at this location,&#8221; Darby Borough police said.Police believe Russell became impatient with the guard, who had stopped traffic for kids on a bus. The crossing guard has since resigned from her job and is recovering from a concussion.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Marshals have announced the arrest of Rashiem Russell, a 29-year-old from West Philadelphia, in connection with an attack on a crossing guard outside an elementary school in Darby Borough, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Russell was taken into custody in Darlington, South Carolina, and is awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe he had a close family member in that area.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Darby Borough Police Department, the attack happened around 3:50 p.m. Monday near South Sixth and Walnut streets outside Walnut Street Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A crossing guard, who works daily to keep our children and neighbors safe, was assaulted at this location,&#8221; Darby Borough police said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"crossing guard assault suspect caught\" title=\"Crossing guard assault suspect caught\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/poster-image-2026-03-19t164645-108-69bdaee8c0485.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tHearst OwnedDarby Borough Police Department\t<\/p>\n<p>Police believe Russell became impatient with the guard, who had stopped traffic for kids on a bus. The crossing guard has since resigned from her job and is recovering from a concussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Marshals have announced the arrest of Rashiem Russell, a 29-year-old from West Philadelphia, in connection with an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1646,4860,65881,2590,65522,65575,65877,30212,12861,16831,28,69,71,70,206,65878,10553,65576,22881,22678,65879,65880],"class_list":["post-144118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-arrest","tag-attack","tag-awaiting-extradition-to-pennsylvania","tag-custody","tag-darby-borough","tag-darby-borough-police-department","tag-darlington","tag-elementary-school","tag-extradition","tag-guard","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-police","tag-rashiem-russell","tag-south-carolina","tag-south-sixth","tag-u-s-marshals","tag-us-marshals","tag-walnut-street-elementary-school","tag-west-philadelphia-native"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}