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Two FCTI students arrested

April 12, 2008

Student arrested
Two female students attending classes at First Coast Technical Institute on Collins Avenue were arrested this week on charges of disruption of a school function; one of whom was also charged with resisting arrest without violence, battery on a school board employee, and violation of probation.

Deputy Kelly Walker was the first officer to arrive on the scene in the FCTI cosmetology class room where she reported finding two female students being held apart by Dean Sylvester Lucas and carpentry class instructor Bill Clark.

At one point, one of the students attacked Dean Lucas; punching him and slapping his glasses off of his face. The students were separated but managed to get back at each other on two or three occasions during the incident; screaming profanities and swinging at each other with closed fists. At least twice, Deputy Walker unholstered her Taser and commanded the students to stop fighting — but her Taser was never deployed according to the incident report.

Deputies Sean Tice and Kelly Kemp responded to Deputy Walker’s call for assistance to secure the students. After the incident was over, Deputies Kemp and Whitfield transported the juveniles.

Both of the students were placed on suspension from school for 10 days. One of the students is also being referred to the Gaines Alternative School for the safety of school employees and other students.

Written by AuggieNewsHound · Filed Under Crime & Punishment 

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5 Responses to “Two FCTI students arrested”

  1. Cato on April 12th, 2008 4:42 pm

    This incident is an example of where suspension from “regular” school is appropriate, but immediate enrollment at “special” (in this case Gaines) should be implemented.

    For troubled and lawbreaking students to be given 10 days on the town is absurd.

  2. AuggieNewsHound on April 12th, 2008 7:40 pm

    I never had any idea that things in the cosmetology class room were that exciting.

    Gives a whole new meaning to “bad hair day”. don’t you think!

  3. jolinda on April 13th, 2008 9:48 am

    Giving these kids time off for bad behavior is ridiculous. Why not have them do a little manual labor. Let them wash the school windows, clean the lunch room after lunch is over, pick up trash around campus and then write an essay on why fighting in school is a no-no and read it out loud to the entire school. They need to learn consequences for the bad choices they make. Maybe that would change the path of some of the future prisoners.

  4. AuggieNewsHound on April 13th, 2008 10:23 am

    They need to learn consequences for the bad choices they make.

    I couldn’t agree more.

  5. tsiya on April 14th, 2008 1:09 am

    These aren’t infants, the day for a smack on the wrist is long past. Punching a teacher or school administrator calls for jail time, in my book.

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