- November 17, 2024
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A 14-year-old Matanzas High School student is facing charges for hitting a 15-year-old boy who’d teased him, according to a Sheriff’s Office case report. The 15-year-old was hospitalized for a cut that required stitches.
Problems between the two boys began before the May 27 incident: The 15-year-old boy who was punched was one of a group of six or seven kids who’d been “making fun of (the 14-year-old), his parents and his recently deceased uncle” using a chat app called “Kick It” since the beginning of the week, according to the report.
The two boys “clearly made plans to fight in school today in the chat,” a deputy wrote in the report, but the 15-year-old told the deputy that “he had no intention of following through with those plans.”
The morning of May 27, the 14-year-old was sitting at a table when the 15-year-old arrived at school. According to the police report, multiple witnesses told deputies that “(the 15-year-old) then approached (the 14-year-old) and stated, ‘are you talking (expletive).’”
The boys argued, then the 14-year-old “tackled (the 15-year-old) causing (the 15-year-old) to hit his head on the concrete and a small gash to the back of his head.”
Both teens were on the ground “throwing punches until the fight was broken up by administration,” according to the report. The 14-year-old had “a small cut to his left leg and a small scrape on his right arm,” according to the report.
The 15-year-old had a cut that was “more severe and required stitches,” and Rescue 22 took him to Florida Hospital Flagler.
“Due to the physical aggressiveness of (the 14-year-old) and the severity of the injury, charges were forwarded to the SAO reference battery,” the deputy wrote in the report.
All of the people involved gave sworn written statements except the 15-year-old, “due to his head injury.” Both teens gave a deputy screenshots of the Kick It chat, which the deputy uploaded to an evidence database, according to the report.
