COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Part of a teacher’s skull had to be removed after a 16-year-old student allegedly attacked her at an Ohio high school.
As reported on News Center 7 at 5:00, he assault sent the teacher to the hospital after Hamilton County Prosecutor Melissa Powers said the student punched the teacher multiple times in her head, according to our news partners at WCPO. Part of her skull cap had to be removed “in order to prevent brain damage due to swelling.”
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Colerain police released body camera video, where the student tells officers he started freaking out minutes after hitting a vape in the bathroom. In the footage, you can see the vape in question that officers bring into an office while they’re questioning the teen. He said he thought he was in a dream.
The teen is first seen on the ground with someone consoling him. When officers ask him if he’s under the influence, he appears to lose his footing and they ask him if he is under the influence.
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“Did you take anything, smoke anything, drink anything,” one officer asked.
“I took a cart,” the 16-year-old said.
The cart is what officers described as the vape.
“Did someone give you something in the bathroom?” an officer asked.
The teenager makes an inaudible noise.
“Yeah, OK, what was it?” the officer asked.
Then a woman asks if the teen is hurt.
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The officer says, “I think he might have hit his head.”
“I think he was banging his head against the glass,” the woman said.
Officers then agree that the student is not in the right state of mind.
The officers are seen asking him who the teen was he was vaping with. He describes two students and also the vape with a “42″ on it.
The 16-year-old’s lawyer told WCPO that medical test results will hopefully determine what the teen ingested.
The footage shows the teen get put into an ambulance to go to the hospital for head injuries.
The teen is then seen getting booked into the Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center where he is shackled but not handcuffed. Officers said they couldn’t handcuff him because of his injuries, WCPO reported.
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