SAN ANTONIO – An eighth-grade student was arrested last week following a fight at Jefferson Middle School that left a female student and a staff member injured, according to school officials.
The fight occurred last Thursday between two male students. The situation escalated when one of the students assaulted a female student.
The 14-year-old girl says she was attacked because she is friends with the boy her attacker had a fight with.
“Me and my friend, we ran out because we were scared. That’s when he came running after me. I heard my friend call my name. That’s when I felt someone pulling my hair and hitting me.”
The girl whose name we’re not sharing says she is traumatized and can’t remember much about the attack because she suffered a concussion.
“I hit my head on the wall. I blacked out. That’s all I remember is being scared.”
A school staff member who attempted to intervene and stop the altercation was also injured.
The teen girl’s mother, Nancy Ramirez says when her daughter returned to school Monday although her attacker was not there her daughter was visibly shaken because she learned the boy who attacked her could return to school anytime. Ramirez says Northside ISD hasn’t given her an explanation as to why the student is still in school. The student currently hasn’t been expelled or sent to alternative school.
“I’m really at a loss for words,” Ramirez said. “I can’t wrap my mind around this whole situation, and how nothing has been done. “It’s literally a week later.”
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NISD Police arrested the male student on a charge of Assault Causing Bodily Injury. Officials said the student was taken into custody, and the district is pursuing disciplinary action.