APTOS — The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Workplace is investigating a highschool altercation that left one teen hospitalized this week.
Shortly after Monday’s assault on the Aptos Excessive Faculty campus, college officers distributed a associated alert responding to social media posts. Partly, the assertion learn that college officers had been working with the Sheriff’s Workplace to analyze allegations that brass knuckles had been used throughout the battle.
“Campus security continues to be a precedence for us and we take each incident severely,” the college assertion reads. “We are going to proceed to tell households when our campus is experiencing a risk. This was an incident that concerned two people that was managed swiftly which didn't pose a risk to the complete campus.”
An Aptos Excessive administrator didn't reply to a request for remark associated to the altercation.
In accordance with Lt. Patrick Dimick, investigators interviewed the injured pupil and launched them on the college to the scholar’s dad and mom. The scholar later was handled at a hospital for accidents that subsequently elevated a cost towards his assailant. The suspected assailant was arrested and booked into Santa Cruz County Juvenile Corridor on suspicion of felony battery, in keeping with Dimick.
“Right now, we imagine a weapon could have been used and that is nonetheless below investigation,” Dimick informed the Sentinel in an e-mail. “That is an remoted incident and doesn't look like gang-related.”
Aptos Excessive officers are urging the college group to report incidents impacting campus security by a downloadable cell messaging app referred to as STOPit, out there for obtain by way of the college’s homepage at aptoshs.internet.