ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, March 8, 1997 TAG: 9703100041
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: JOEL TURNER
One student said he was cut with a box cutter, the other was thrown through a plate-glass window.
Two students at William Fleming High School have been charged with malicious wounding and property damage as a result of a fight Friday morning that resulted in one of them being thrown through a plate-glass window.
Police said the altercation between the 16-and 18-year-old male students occurred in a hallway before classes started and no other students were in the area where the glass was shattered.
The students refused to disclose the reason for the fight, police said, but the older student stated that the younger one cut him with a box cutter and razor blade.
The 16-year-old student was thrown through a window that divides the hall from a classroom. He received severe cuts and was taken to a Roanoke hospital for treatment.
The older student was treated at the city jail for his cuts.
Police said the younger student, who recently transferred to the school, will also be charged with assaulting a female teacher before a school resource officer arrived on the scene. The teacher was struck several times in her back, police said.
The younger student resisted the officer, causing the officer's clothes to be spattered with the youth's blood, police said.
Alyce Szathmary, principal of the school, said both students have been suspended, and further disciplinary action is anticipated.
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